He Ao exited the photo-viewing interface and glanced at the timestamp on the photo: December, year 757.
Counting the time, that was just after the Rock City incident.
By then, the Rock City Miners' Mutual Aid Association had already completed its reorganization and was being managed by Nell's two older brothers.
But He Ao had never expected that Erian had been to Rock City.
Hawke didn't know either.
In fact, in June of 757, Hawke had gone to Vilensis, met Erian once, and quarreled with his son over the issue of 'K'.
Geographically speaking, Vilensis is in the Northeastern Federation; heading northwest from Vilensis, passing through Xiqilelan, you can reach Rock City quite quickly.
Of course, this "quickly" is only in comparison with cities in the South and Western Federation.
After Erian went to university, he'd never asked Hawke for money; if he took an airship, he could only afford the cheapest one to Rock City, and it would still take several days to get there.
