The Kingdom Of Stories And Lies

Chapter 12

Arya went looking for Falcon first thing in the morning. She needs answers. She found him with the guards, discussing some new protection regulation, they nod at her and Falcon turns to face her 

"we need to talk." He furrows his eyebrows and nods. They move to the garden and Arya says

 "I didn't know you too were lying to me." He is utterly confused right now 

"lying to you? What about?" she shakes her head. 

"you told me that the laborers and sailors were paid fair wages." 

"That was what was informed to me." She furrows. "cut the crap, Falcon. I'm not a kid anymore, I was introduced into the ruling games way too early, so, you can just cut the bullshit and tell me."

 He is surprised, he gives up "I was ordered not to talk about it, even to you." 

"why?!" he shakes his head 

"I tried talking about it with the minister of finance and your father but neither listened to me. They said that this is what they deserved and that they were lousy and lazy. I did not believe them so, I went to see for myself." She crosses her arms "and?" 

"and they were working their asses off but none dared to complain about the wages. They were too afraid to lose their jobs, no matter how low they were paid, they still needed the money. Most of them had families to look after and couldn't afford to be fired." 

She nods "and what about the thing where ships had been disappearing for over a month now and nobody cared to tell me." 

Falcon raises his eyebrows in question "what ships? I thought the Alynthian ship was the first?" she shrugs "no, apparently not." 

"how do you know?" Arya smirks "I have my sources." He smiles "of course you do." She turns to leave but then Falcon asks her "what are you planning to do?" she shrugs "a lot of things Falcon. A lot." And the look in her eyes tells him that she is up to no good.

She found Niran in the hall "can I have a word with you?" and something in her eyes and determination tells him that today is not the day to be sarcastic. 

He nods and they enter her rooms. "any updates?" he asks first. "No, not really. But I gathered some new information, it probably doesn't matter to you but I need to ask you something." He inclines his head "go ahead." 

She swallows "did your ship contain anything other than food or cargo?" he shakes his head "no, it did not. Why?" 

she sighs "okay good." He is so confused right now. "another question if you don't mind. Is this the first time your men set a foot in any of Rava's harbors or did it happen before?" 

"they only rest in the harbors which we are licensed to set foot in and honestly? I don't know why they went to New Wave Harbor in the first place. Our root doesn't even go there, so, I guess this is a problem both of us need to work on." 

She nods "I'll work on the disappearing thing and you on why did your men go there in the first place." He nods "okay." 

"okay." She repeats. 

He smiles "have a nice day" and leaves the room.