Hi again.
So I received a review asking me why not both?
I asked myself and said"Screw it, I'm doing both." With that here is chapter six.
Later that evening Luxa was leading the Overlanders to were their rooms for the time of their stay. After both Andrew and Chuck are gone to sleep and Ripred leaves. Gregor is left alone with Luxa.
"Umm, Luxa?" Gregor asked cautiously.
"Yes?" She responded.
"Could I... uhh, this is kind of awkward to ask. Can I move to Regalia?"
"Yes, why not?"
"Thank you."
"In fact, you can move in my chambers if you would like." And she continued with a whisper."Preferably my room."
"Well if you are ok with it, I will." She didn't know if he heard the whispered part, but it was a start.
Luxa picked Gregor's hand and lead him to the Royals Chambers.
"In which room will I stay?"
"In a very special one." She said as she lead him to a room with stone doors, not curtains, doors. She lead him in and closed the doors behind them. By now Gregor was confused. Than he noticed the bed, it had the Royal Emblem.
"Wait, is this your room?"
"Do you have a problem with laying in bed with a Queen?"
"No, that's not it. Actually, I'd love to. But if the council or Howard were to find out, they wouldn't be very ha..." He didn't get a chance to finish, because Luxa interrupted him.
"Do I need to repeat myself? I've made it more than clear that I do not care for the council." She said in a calm voice.
"Ok."
"What does ok mean?"
"It's short for all correct."
"But all correct is written with an a and a c not with an o and a k."
"The reason for that is simple, some years ago, a guy did small jokes in a paper, and one of them included this ok and it just stuck with people."
"That is interesting."
"Yeah, there's a lot of things that could be interesting in the Overland history. Do you guys have a library here, or some history books? In the six years I've been gone I did a lot of reading in history."
"I will ask Vikus. But for now we have to sleep, a long day awaits for us tomorrow."
"Yeah." With that they changed in their night clothes. Apparently Luxa had a whole wardrobe full of men's clothing.
"What's this?" Gregor said.
"It is something that the council forced here, probably in case I ever accepted one of the suitors. Looks like you will use them."
Gregor didn't say anything.
After they were finally changed they got in bed. The two just couldn't let go of each other's hand, so they decided to embrace, after that kissing begun and after that...(you get the picture, this is rated T, not M. T is for swearing and suggestive themes, not explicit content, sorry).
In the morning a knock on the door shook Luxa and Gregor out of their deep sleep. Luxa got up and yelled:"Who is there?"
The person replied:"It's me, Hazard, your cousin. I am coming in."
In a split second Luxa shoved Gregor under the blanket and hoped that Hazard didn't wouldn't notice Gregor. Gregor understood what Luxa was doing, so he played along.
Hazard got in and asked:
"Why are you still in bed? You have duties."
"You sound like Vikus."
"You are right, I do sound likely Vikus. And what is that..." He gasped, he noticed that there was someone else in her bed." Do you have any idea of what is going to happen to him for that?" Now Hazard was angry." Actually, that does not matter, this is about you. What will happen when Gregor comes back?"
So Hazard had no idea that Gregor had returned, thought Luxa.
"Well, about Gregor, who do you think is here with me?" With that sentence being finished Gregor got up and took the blanket off him.
The anger from Hazard's face disappeared and was quickly replaced with a grin.
"See you at breakfast." Was all Hazard had to say and left.
"Are we going to get in trouble?"
"No, I once did a favor for him and now he will return the gesture."
After getting up Gregor and Luxa headed out to get some breakfast, of course, after they took a bath and changed clothes, they didn't want Ripred to know what they did.
Five minutes later they joined the others. Vikus was present.
"So, sleep well?"
"Yeah."
"I slept good."Luxa responded shortly after Gregor.
"I will get straight to the point. Gregor, do you know anything about Overland history or military tactics? Our generals have encountered resistance from the rebel Gnawers.
"For the past six years I've studied a lot of history and military tactics."
"Very well. Meet us in the war room in two hours."
Two hours later Gregor entered the war room and saw the general front yesterday, Mareth, and two more generals.
"Now that you are here, what can you tell us about Overland war?" Mareth asked.
"A lot."
"What is the most common tactic?"
"It's kind of hard to explain, but I'll do my best. So your tactic is basically both armies facing each other on a field?" The generals nodded." Last time we did that in the Overland we were in a stalemate. A stalemate is when both armies are stuck and can't move forward. The particular one that I'm talking about was really blody and took about four years to end. So in order to avoid this problem, you concentrate your troops on a small portion if the enemy line. After you break trough you can move forward, encircle the enemy and attack them from two sides."
The generals were stunned. Mareth was speechless.
"But I don't know if it will work for you, I mean these tactics are sixty to seventy years old."
"Something as simple as that can be more than enough for a starting point for the creation of new tactics." Another general said.
"This is the base for the group of tactics known as Blitzkrieg, also known as Lightning war."
"What is a lightning?"
"Something very fast."
This is the end for this chapter.
I'll see you next time. Ohh and for next time, I have something more interesting than military tactics or history, I have... The history of Overland genocide. How do you think the Underlanders will react to the inhumanity of the overlanders? Or to the number of victims?
Ohh it's going to be interesting to write.
Please review.
Goodbye!
