Logan opened his mouth,

"There are two things one is that the men of the army around 15 are getting sick. I thought that your nurse might have an answer. When I left I tried to find an army to join. I found one but the army was problematic and the King was not a person one would want to be with. But there was a boy there who hated you, that the was one of the Kings favorites. He hated me too... I left because he tried to kill me. I think that the King of Chicago is going to come after you."

Lisa stared at him. Unbelieving. Then she interrogated him.

Everything he said matched what she knew. And if an attack this big would happen she would need his help.

She first checked with the counsel and her argument swayed most. She then announced to her people the problems that they would be facing and that Logan's army would be staying with them. Many were angry, but she calmed them. She then announced to the army the plan, and managed to arrange some living space for them. After sending out several supply trucks to get more furniture and other necessities she went to retire to the tower room yet again, when she was stopped by Logan.

"I heard the diagnosis of my sick men. The plague is back. What is happening."

Lisa sighed and gestured for him to follow her to the Recording Room. The keeper, an eleven year old girl by the name of Karly was there working through marriage matches. She had helpers but all were gone. The pale, delicate girl looked up, startled when she heard them enter. Lisa gestured for Karly to leave, and simply stood in the middle of the large room. Its walls were around ten feet high and had people mapped out across them. There were books still in the process of being made that listed people to make the job easier. Tom looked around the room in astonishment while Lisa sank into Karly's vacated chair. Tom sat in the chair across the large book covered desk.

"What is this place?"

"Let start at the beginning shall we?"

And she explained it all to him. His face changed with all the things she said. His responses to her words written plainly across his face. When she finished the tale she left him to think it over, and to sleep.

Lisa did not call a counsel meeting for over two weeks. But when she did she brought Tom with her.

"People of the Counsel. This is our Army Director. He will be in charge of training and the fighting prowess of our newly expanded army. He is also now a part of our counsel."

The counsel agreed that it was a logical place for him to serve.

"Now. Down to business. Tomorrow the matches will be sent out. By the end of the month the living arrangements will be shifted and finished. However we have a problem. One that I cannot decide on alone."

The counsel leaned forward as one. Wondering what was this thing that their Queen could not do.

"I have recognized that within the next three years, I too will be deceased. So there is the matter of a Royal Heir."

The counsel muttered together. Only Tom appraising the muddle.

After some time the counsel began to draw conclusions nudged slightly by Lisa. The Heir should be female, Todd should rule until she is able, the Royal Match should be decided on very soon. All things that Lisa had thought of. But then came an idea of the father. The future King.

Strong. Not too old. Leader. Several choices arose, rejected, rejected and rejected again. And then the counsels eyes fell to Tom.

Lisa had objected as had Tom. He was fourteen, she was thirteen. But in the end it was the most logical choice. He was powerful, strong, clever, and a born leader. and so it was decided and announced. Lisa, The Queen of Glenbard, was to marry Tom Logan, the Captain of the Army.

Cliffy?

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