The two of them led Dominic back out into the party, where nobles were sipping wine and snacking on appetizers being passed around by the staff.
Dominic was the centre of everyone's curiosity, walking between Princess Alexis, who he had arrived with, and Princess Eleanor, who was known among the nobles to be a bit eccentric in her choice of friends.
If both of them liked this strange man, then it didn't bode well for their sons' chances to land a Princess as a wife. Everyone knew that the line of succession was already secured, so the few remaining bachelors and bachelorettes could afford to be picky with their choices.
But asking the Nobles' eligible sons to be polite to some random Sorcerer whose lineage they didn't even know, just to get close to the Princess, was a big request.
And the Princesses knew it.
