"Fritz! You're back!" I shouted running to him. He'd gone on a horse back ride after teaching me a battle tactic with my toy soldiers. He bent down and I reached up to hug him, happy for his return. He put a hand in my hair and he put he other one to my side.
"I'm happy to see too my child." He wrapped his arms around me and lifted me off the ground.
"Guess what I did!" I cheered, smiling up at him
"What did you do Gilbert?"
"I made a new law and I had time to draw a picture of you!" He smiled at me.
"Can I see?" I jumped up and down in excitement.
"Yes! I want you to see. It's in my room Fritz." He carried me to my room before setting me on my feet with a hand on my head before walking in further. I ran to my desk and pulled up my papers before running to him. "See? See?" He nodded.
"I see." He took my papers and took a look at them. I waited for his opinion. "This picture is very nice. How long have you been drawing?"
"Three years. I know that's not a long time but…"
"Actually three years is a long time." He handed me the drawing as he began to read my new law. After a few minutes he looked at me. "I'm sorry Gilbert but I do not approve of this law. I do not wish to make it public or official." I frowned.
"What?"
"I do not approve of demanding the Kingdom of Prussia to be Calvinist."
"But then we'd have another thing in common. You're always saying that we need more things to link our people. Many other countries pass this type of law, even stupid Austria." He gave me a look at name calling Austria but he said nothing.
"They are likely to have more loyalty if we let them keep their own religion, not to mention if this law were to be passed that I would have more of a scrutinized eye on me than no eye at all. Though even without this law, we are all connected together by the very belief that there is indeed a God." I looked at him. That all made sense.
"Then what about the law?" He smiled.
"We can have a Calvinist church built to bring the Calvinists together. It would be the very first of its kind." I beamed at him, excited again.
"Okay! …How do we do that?" He grabbed my hand.
"I'll show you." He led me to his chambers and sat me on his lap as he pulled parchment and ink towards him. "Which quill do you want me to use?" I looked at his quills before grabbing the one with a big blue feather. He took it and began to write. I watched, fascinated.
When he was done the parchment had three short paragraphs. He set the quill down before rolling up the parchment and setting me on my feet. He grabbed my hand again before heading out of his chambers and towards somewhere else in the castle. I had no idea where we were going now. We came face to face with what might be Fritz' second in command.
"Henry, will you see this posted tomorrow?"
"Of course Frederick." He gave me a smile before heading off to business.
"Now all we do is wait. The church will be built maybe before the end of year."
"I want it built faster!" I complained.
"You can't race perfection. God deserves all his churches to be perfect, or as perfect as possible."
"What do we do until then?"
"Would you like to show me what you remember of what I taught you?" I grinned.
"Yes!" I ran off to go get my toy soldiers and prove I knew the Oblique Tactic.
