"How?" Irene asked as they began to calm. "Why?"
"We are in a period of reformation of the knighthood," Sir Gunnar explained to her as he gently squeezed her shoulder. "Most of our knighthood is in the south with the Knights of Hydrogia. We expressed to them before they took the trip south after the war that, even though they are still part of our knighthood, their not being here for our knighting ceremony allows us to do what we see fit to the structure of our knighthood."
She wanted to vehemently disagree, but she knew that doubting his judgment could be considered insubordination, even though they were now both knights, she an even higher knight than he.
"I feel I am unfit to stand above you in rank, Sir Gunnar," she responded honestly and more calmly than she likely would have.
