And so his conclusion, arriving through the link with the calm certainty of something he considered self-evident, was that Noah should stop treating furniture like load-bearing walls.
More than that — when the time came, when the supreme magus rank was no longer weeks away but present and real and sitting at the top of Noah's actual capabilities, Kael felt that the more appropriate relationship between his master and these organizations was not one of mutual cooperation.
It was one of service.
They should be working under Noah. That was the natural order, from where Kael stood.
Not as enemies defeated and subjugated through violence, but as entities that had correctly recognized where the highest concentration of power now resided and had oriented themselves accordingly.
It was, to the dragon's mind, simply how things ought to be arranged.
Noah smirked.
"You can't think of it like that, Kael," he said in his mind.
