"I thought we had called off our engagement?"

To Eliza, Joslan was a childhood friend and a boy she was close to. It was only natural that a betrothal was proposed when Eliza was 10 years old and Joslan was 13, given that their territories were adjacent and the two got along well. Eliza didn't have romantic feelings toward Joslan, who looked after her like an older brother, but she wasn't opposed to it either. Joslan, though he wryly smiled and said she was like a little sister to him, didn't object either—but...