So this chapter is gonna be a little different. I will be resenting to you a conversation between Mark and Fredereck is Iambic pentameter (Shakespeare speak for those who don't know what that means right away, haha). I'm doing this for multiple reasons. Mostly, because I feel like I post so infrequently that I need something to tide you all over while I work on the next chapter. I also want to take time to flesh out relationships and friendships, and this seems like a good way to do it. Also, I kinda just want to practice iambic pentameter, and you're my guinea pigs! SO, let's all sit back, and enjoy the scene that unfolds)


We join back in our tale of war and peace

And here we find two men who swore to Chrom

The young tactician who knows not his past

Along him at his side is Fredereck

The weary knight who hear serves as the ear

Mark: With you I wish to have a word

Fredereck: What need you from me here while on the march?

Mark: Naught but brief word on things that hang on me

Fredereck: You wish from me a word whilst we do march?

To Gangral's land to bring the man to sword?

Forsooth, I hope you not give me ill news

Mark: Fear not, my words bear not the air of war

In change, I come to you with other pains.

Fredereck: What ill thoughts bear upon your brow, my friend?

I hope the ghosts of fallen souls not lay

Inside your mind and cloud what lies within

Mark: Nay. Souls that once obstructed me now rest.

What ills me now I feel are thoughts of love

And love has taken hold of me of late

It comes within the borders of our camp

Fredereck: Why do you come to me with such a plight?

Mark: For you have been a brother to our lord

Before in war but now in marriage bond

Our dear lord's sister you have made your bride

I hoped you may give some insight to this

The fires of love within a war's great heat

Fredereck: Tis true, that Lissa and I's love is strong

And were it not for this conflict we may

N'ere have known that we could be so in love

But Lo, who is the dame who has thy heart?

Mark: She is…she is a maid that is beyond

In flames of war she has the grace of all

The water in the seas and like it she

Doth quench the fires around her in the fight

Fredereck: Will you not speak plain of this fair woman

Mark: I speak as plain as I find able now

Fredereck: Who is this woman?

Mark: …I fear 'tis fair Cordelia has my heart

Fredereck: She? She who has her eyes for our lord Chrom?

Mark: Aye

Fredereck: And she who gives naught thought for other men?

Mark: Aye, the same.

Fredereck: I think you find your heart to be quite cruel.

Mark: None knows that fact as well as I know it

But when I see her riding on her mount

Throughout that sky that lies above us now

My heart doth wish that I too had a steed

So I may ride those skies and be with her

Fredereck: You speak so fond of dear Cordelia now

But, 'ere today I've naught heard you before

Speak on the subject of her or a dame

Mark: Twas fortnight last when we were in Plegia

When in defeat we ran for boarder land.

She swept me up and saved my humbled life.

And since that day I find myself entranced

With both her beauty and her martial skill

She takes my breath and leaves me little thought

I fear that this may lead unto my end.

Fredereck: I hear your hurt and only offer this

All of our company knows of her love

For our Lord Chrom, except for maybe he

How he is so vapid I cannot say

But in your pains I hope you'll think on this

That war is hard and loss is commonplace

And if you feel so true I'd hope you speak

To fair Cordelia and make her your bride

Mark: My thanks do you, dear Fredereck for this

Fredereck: think not of it, for I was glad to lend

An ear to you and keep you well of mind

Mark: But look! I see a fort of our dire foes!

I must ride forward and prepare our seige.

Come join me when you've settled all your arms!


Well That was it. Like I said, it was more an experiment in iambic pentameter, and a bonus scene for the people who are keen to read more. There will be one more chapter posted by the end of jusly, I promise. Until then, make sure you leave me feedback, I welcome all of it.