"So in fact, what he said was that it's good you were able to take care of your own research?" Anvar's mother crosses her arms and smiles, amused. "I suppose." "Well, anyway, the date for the Assembly is fixed," she changes the subject. "With the Kasith-Varouin clan?" "Yes. It will be on the first day of the next month." "And they're coming here? To our clanhold?" "Yes. It's nothing to worry about. They were part of the West Rathe Accord too." "I know," Anvar says, but there is still a little niggling worry inside him. "It's just... I've never been to an Assembly." "They used to happen regularly." There is a wistful note in his mother's voice.