King Albert was away to Drakos for a council meeting with the other 6 phases leaders, they were discussing about the future of the kingdom and how to expand their land “if we give them gold then what will we get?” prince Louis Argyros, first son and heir to the Argyros kingdom asked “trust, we gain their trust” princess Valery Velaryon, the only child of her parents of the velaryon phase said and took a sip of her wine.

“Oh don’t make me laugh princess Valery, who gains on trust these days” king Amos Targios the leader of the Targios phase said “We don’t need to gain from it Ser. Amos, giving them a chance is enough” Valery said.

“So you think the Willow people would just give us their land for gold?, they already have more than that there, they have 12 phases already, give us just one phase would cost them a lot of pride that we ourselves can’t handle” Ser Lyod, leader of the Kyrios said and scoffed.

“if we get their trust, we can get more than we bargain, our ships have sailed over the north sea, according to my input, the Hollow kingdom is soon going to have a war with Midway kingdom, helping them with 50,000 men from one of our strongest armies will help them take over midway, and when they do, having half of the kingdom won’t be much of a big deal I tell you” Princess velary insisted.

“Think about the consequences it might lead to princess Velary, what if midway strikes towards us, or if hollow kingdom randomly decides a war after they take over Hillow?” Ser. Amos said and velary sighed “that’s why we need their trust ser. Amos” “using trust as a bid might keep us in danger princess velary”.

“What are your thoughts on this your grace?” Ser. Christopher, the lord hand (the assistant to the king), also Sarah’s elder brother said as he looked at albert and albert gave a heavy sigh “Princess Velary has a point, and so does Ser. Amos, but I have a better point” albert said and stood up.

“We’ll wait for the war to start, we do not want to keep our hands dirty, and also Princess sully is friends with Jace Midway, the heir of midway, we do not also want a grudge to happen between our youngsters, instead, during the war, one of the kingdoms will surely reach out for our help, and when we do, we have completely sided with them, they’ll have to gain our trust, instead of the other way round” albert said and left the room.

“Sarah told me you kept on ignoring her” sully said as she sat down and took off her leg tights and Luke carried a pen and his jotter book and wrote something on it and gave it to sully and it read ‘When?, I’ve told her hi countless of times’ sully read it and gave it back to him.

“With your eyebrows, right?” sully said and stood up and walked to the mirror and Luke kept writing another thing and gave it to her ‘was there any other way?’ it read and she glared at him through the mirror and he looked down.

“Why didn’t you touch her skin like the way you did to-” sully was saying when he immediately covered her mouth and used his other hand to write on his book and gave it to her ‘careful of the words you say, if words get out, she’ll be thrown out of the palace and you know that too’, she looked at him and laughed “do you love her that much?” sully asked as she put his hand down and he innocently nodded his head.

“Then marry her” sully said and he looked down “you’re scared of who, father?” sully asked as he shook his head as a no and pointed outside the window that shows the country side “you think they’ll all be against you, don’t you?” sully asked looking outside and Luke nodded his head and she smiled.

“That’s why I’m here, to protect you from them, so you can do anything you want-” sully was saying when they suddenly heard a knock at the door “come in!” sully instructed and the door opened and the king’s messenger came in and bowed.

“Your grace is back from his trip and wishes to see the both of you” he said “we’ll be there in five minutes” sully said as he bowed and left.

“Why aren’t you asking about my trip, sully?” albert asked as he smiled at sully as she bent to pick the flowers Luke was trying his best not the inhale the air in there because of his allergy.

“Because I’m not curious” sully said without turning to him “what about you Luke?” Albert said as he turned to Luke and look acted like he didn’t say anything.

sully stood upright and turned to her father “are we done here father?” sully asked as she touched Luke’s curly hair. “You have other plans?” albert asked trying his best not to be frustrated “I have not, Luke has an allergy to flowers” sully said “oh I didn’t know, i-” albert was saying when sully interrupted him “how would you?” sully said and held Luke’s hand.

“Don’t act like you care your grace, it doesn’t fit you” sully said as she walked pass albert holding Luke’s hand.

Sarah and sully were taking a walk in the streets of the countryside when Prince Davies Kyrios, the heir of Krios approached them “what a beautiful day to take a walk, your grace” Davies said with a goofy smile.

“Move away or else I’ll have your tongue” Sarah said and Davies laughed “oh my, I mean no harm” he said as he continued following them.

“I heard from my father about Midway waging a war against Hillow” Davies said as he stopped and took an apple from an old lady’s shop and looked at it.

“And in what way, is that possibly any of my business?” Sully asked as she smiled at the old lady while giving her a small bag of gold coins.

“Your father-um no, my apologies, your grace has decided to help the first kingdom to comes to his aid” Davies said and spit on the apple and threw it on the ground.

“So?” sully asked as she continued walking “I thought you and Jace were Lovers?, 50,000 men from the strongest army, Jace could eventually get killed and-” He was saying when sully paused and turned to him.

“Do you know that your head could be taken away from your body if this were to be false?” Sully asked and he looked at her “I know very well princess Sully” Davies said and she turned back and continued walking.

“If those orders were from my father then he probably had a reason for it, probably to-” Suly was saying when he interrupted her “extend the land?” “correct, prince Davies, look away from it” sully said and turned to Sarah.

“tell the guards to bring the horses I’m exhausted from walking”.