“You can’t get away from it—you’ll fall in love and get married,” her mother told Erica, and her father supported her.
“And then you’ll live with your wife happily for a long time, raise children, and hold a position at court,” added the mother. “After all, you weren’t planning to become a practicing mage?”
Eric had long been one—more than that, he was preparing to defend theses at the Academy of Magic—but his parents didn’t care. “I don’t want to get married, I want to study!” Eric thought, and decided to bring such a bride into the house that, in his mother’s eyes, everything would darken.
And here’s what came of it…