“I apologize, Your Majesty, but I have come for another matter.” Said someone who had traveled far to come to the pace in Rangcew.

  The King of Rangcew frowned, his obvious dislike being shown to what had been said, and continued, “Then what matter is there?”

  The newcomer turned towards Prince Elton, who was silently standing to the side, with calcuted eyes, and bowed.

  “I have come to ask for the young Prince’s hand for my daughter, Crabelle.”

  The King solemnly looked at his son and frowned again, “The Prince is my son…” Was all he stated loudly, yet his thoughts were more aggressive!

  ‘This is my country, he is my person! You must ask me if you want something!’

  King Lewis wanted all the power, not wanting to let go an inch! If someone was asking for his son’s hand in marriage, why were they looking at his son and not him!?

  The newcomer was not someone you wanted to anger easily yet, he was also not another King, so King Lewis stood and waved his hands, “I and my son are currently busy and will have to continue this discussion another day. If you excuse us.”

  Walking off, without even waiting upon either that of his son or the newcomer, the King left the room.

  “The country of Funmil is waiting upon a certain day, young Prince.” Stated the newcomer in a quiet voice, staring at the prince.

  The prince nodded and started to walk out of the room as well, “…We all are, Advisor Jones.”.

  It wasn’t the first time a marriage proposal had been made to the prince, nor would it be the st.

  With someone next in line to the throne and still without a Princess, Prince Elton had many suitors yet still no accepted proposal…Well except one, from a very long time ago…

  It also wasn’t the first time that King Lewis was somewhat ignored, and Prince Elton had some authority. Like today, where King Lewis walked away, stating that he was busy, this was how these predicaments were handled. The King would then, ter on, talk to the person alone, where Prince Elton would not be called for or asked to join…

  As King, you have a lot of power already, just by stating that you are the King!

  Yet, for Prince Elton, even though he was a Prince, and even though he was next in line to rule, he felt like being a King was more than just a title.

  He had gone out there, where the homeless were, were the dirty and hardworking people were…Where there were crimes and suffering. He had worked hard to obtain what he had to, to find that his father was not fit for the throne…He was most certainly not fit to rule!

  Prince Elton had kept it in all this time, he kept in his displeasure, his disgust and his disloyalty!

  For the father that helped bring him into this world, Prince Elton had no love for him at all. David, Prince Elton’s loyal and ‘obedient’ friend, would state that the prince wouldn’t know what love was if it hit him in the face and that was why it was so easy for the prince to dislike his own father.

  Whatever it was that first opened Prince Elton’s eyes to his father’s various crimes, he was gd for it!

  He had already helped as much as he could in the background, by obtaining assassins as bodyguards now, and already having someone on the inside of the bck market but he still needed to get the thieves from Lupis on his side!

  Prince Elton still had a nature of wanting things and having the superiority thought of obtaining whatever he wanted, it was just a matter of how long it would take to obtaining it. He was someone that did indeed think himself as someone higher than others, but thought this because he was able to become smarter with having the avaibility of any books and the money to purchase a lot of things that he wanted so it is only ‘understandable’ that he should be of a higher status…

  He has pride in himself, he also knows that he will also have something above his father, that his father will never be able to beat…And that is simply his age!

  Yes…Anything to beat his father, the prince wants it! No…He needs it!

  The country was falling into the shadow of the other countries and soon it could be looked upon as easy to be overtaken!

  The people in the country of Commorda need reassurance, they need a better King!

  King Lewis used anyone and anything to get what he wanted. He would sell off his own daughter to become richer, he would deceive a family, to become more powerful and…He was trying right up until this day, to try and tame his son!

  Prince Elton learnt a lesson a while ago, and that was that he couldn’t just bring up one thing at a time to try and demote his father…He had to get people behind him, he had to get evidence of a few crimes and…He had to wait…Patiently!

  So…He had to act like he was controlled for the time being…He had to act like he was a great son, ready to do whatever his father told him too!

  …If he didn’t py his cards right, evidence could simply vanish…Along with people! No, a lesson had been learnt indeed!

  ***

  “That son of mine is rebelling again!” King Lewis stated, now in his official study room. “Get me Advisor Rick!”

  With the King’s order, a bodyguard loyal to the King rushed off to find this Advisor.

  This certain Advisor Rick had been the King’s man for a long time, and they had been making pns just as long!

  The newest pn of theirs was getting a woman that the prince would marry, a woman that would woo the prince over and make him a puppet.

  They don’t have evidence to support that the prince was rebelling against the King, well not since that brief moment a few years ago, but they have heard about it, and the King knew that something must be done!

  Just…There had been no woman that would fit their category yet! The women were either not beautiful enough, not one they could hold onto to make sure that she was to do as she was told, or they were not someone that could ‘seduce’!

  The King had shaken his head many times to this, thinking that women should be able to fit anywhere he wanted them too! Why was it that nothing was going his way!?

  “Your Majesty?” An old Advisor stated sometime ter.

  “How is it going? Have you not found a woman yet for my son!?” The King asked in an angry tone.

  The Advisor bowed loyally and said, “Not as of yet, Your Majesty.”

  “Why is it taking so long!?” The King yelled.

  Very few saw the King this way, as he was a two-faced King that showed a more patient and tolerate side of himself before others. Some knew how greedy he was, some knew how far he might go but when in front of his Queen, his daughter and son and many others, the King doesn’t lose his temper…

  “If we choice wrongly, Your Majesty, our pns will not work! We must be very particur!” The Advisor stated as calmly and as quietly as he could.

  This advisor clenched his hidden hands as he continued to be lectured by what he thought was an absurd man. He had been loyal for so long now, so long that he was in the position that he needed to be in!

  If anyone knew of what type of woman to get for the prince, so that they could make the prince a puppet, Advisor Rick knew!

  They needed someone that would be able to mesmerize the prince, someone that would make Prince Elton unable to think properly! They needed a woman that would listen to them and do as she was told, someone that didn’t want much and someone that would be easily scared! He knew all this! He didn’t need to be told repeatedly by this absurd man!

  Advisor Rick knew all too well that a specific woman must take time to find and that there was nothing else to do but endure through the King being mad at him at this moment.

  The King took a deep breath and paced the front of his desk, right in front of the Advisor. “I don’t care anymore, if this doesn’t work, we’ll find another way! Find someone this week!”

  The Advisor went to frown but held back, he knew that if the King saw his frown he might be kneeling for another hour or two!

  “Yes, Your Majesty!” Was all the Advisor could say before leaving.

  Because their ‘deep’ retionship was a secret, Advisor Rick left the pace secretly and directly went to his small house that was just outside of the capital. The small house wasn’t his actual residence, it was another home that he could use, especially when he didn’t want to go home to his useless eldest son and badgering wives.

  Just as he put down his coat, ready to go through the potential females of who they could use for a third time, one if his loyal men came to him. “Master.”

  “Speak!”

  “It seems the Prince is going in the direction of Lupis…I thought that if it is so, we’d tell…”

  The Advisor interrupted the man, “Very good, take me to Lupis.”