Intermission, pt. 1 "Queen's Problems"
'This cannot be good.' I thought as I heard the report of one of my Shadows 'This will deepen the divide beetwen Melromarc and other countries.' I then dismissed the shadow, and continued my thinking 'The Hero of the Shield is dead. That's a fact. His body was probably dumped someplace that can't be accessed. And the worst part... I have to deal with Siltvelt's outrage. It's somewhat understandable because their Saviour was just killed. And it would.t have happened if not for the Church of the Three Heroes... Damn this.' As I ended my thought I made my way to the negociations' room. As I entered, everyone looked at me.
Faubley representative, was mostly calm. But I know that under this facade is one of anger.
Shieldfrieden was calm too, but ii was only a matter of time before he will lash out at us.
Siltvelt representative wore a face of pure rage. When I entered he bolted out of his chair he has been sitting.
"This time you took it too far!" He said, poorly masking his anger "You raised your hand against the Legendary Hero!"
"I'd like to remind you that a criminal organisation under the name of Whalers carried out this murder." I replied calmly "We didn't hire them."
"Is that so?" He said sarcasticly "Then how about we capture one of them and make him spill out who paid them to do it? As far as I can remember your people were never strangers to using Assassins to carry out your dirty work."
"That's enough." Faubley representative spoke "I understand his anger. After all, none of this would have happened if you have followed the international agreement." 'There it is again. I have to stop the church before this will escalate further.'
"Thank you for your partial understanding." I said.
"However..." He said, confusing me. "We made an agreement. If you find his murderer along with his body, we may refrain from waging war on you. If you don't..." He then was cut off by the Siltvelt representative.
"Then I will personally lead my country's army into your lands." He said.
"And we will not interfere. We have discussed it with Zeltbull and they have agreed too." He then cleared his throat and said "You have 50 days to find the murderer and the body. The negociations are cancelled until then.
"So go back to your Kingdom, queen." Siltvelt representative said sarcasticly "We are done here." And as he said that all of them stood up and left the room.
"Get me my Filolial. I must get back to the kingdom as fast as possible." I said to one of my servants when I left the room. "We have to avoid war at all costs."
"As you wish, My Mistress." He answered and bowed.
'When I get back, I will personally lead the search for him. The only thing we have to avoid is war. Especially with our old enemies.' I thought.