Luck's descent (BL)

Luck in money 2

Nielle sat dispassionately on his horse and slowly passed through the city. He was followed by ten armed members of his Black Guard, who forced passers-by to look down. It wasn't like Nielle ever did anything unjust to them, it wasn't like he went around kidnapping people for his sadistic games or imprisoning them illegally. However, despite his presence, people feared him as if he were a criminal, when in fact he was the one who was cleaning the country of crime. Nielle thought that none of them had a clear conscience.

However, he never cared about people's opinion. He actually enjoyed their fear, as they gave him further assurance that he couldn´t become king.

If his oldest brother was walking through town, everyone would throw flowers at him and try to impress the Crown prince. But Nielle didn't want to change it.

Once they were out of town, he finally picked up the pace at a gallop and headed in the direction where he had to stop before saving his new toy. The camp, where one of the local guards was based, informed him that they could use his presence due to a shift in the case of thefts that were happening in the city.

Nielle knew that they probably didn't discover anything new. But since it wasn´t far and he didn't intend to come here next time, he stopped by. He knew that his new Lacrisan would survive, so together with his men he got to the camp, where the guards were already waiting for him. He simply jumped off his horse, leaving it in charge of one of hs men.

He went with the rest to the camp. He saw a few familiar faces among the guards who secretly worked for him, but since some of them didn't trumpet it to the world and some of them were even forbidden to do so, he didn't look at any of them directly and just made his way to the part where the soldiers and Laren were supposed to be waiting.

Laren was one of those he was not secretive about. Sometimes he considered placing him somewhere as a spy, since he was loyal and capable, but because of his explosiveness and immaturity, he wasn´t suitable for this job. He was better placed somewhere where he can shout his name to scare away any morons who might try to cause trouble in town.

"Your Highness," he greeted, "we arrested him." He declared enthusiastically.

Nielle looked at the black-haired young man with equally black eyes, whose look screamed loyalty: "Who did you arrest?" He just raised his eyebrows slightly, as if he didn't believe it, "Two days ago, I received a message that you were comletely stuck. I was going to punish you and suddenly you caught someone?" He laughed.

Laren looked down at the ground, "I'm trying my best, sir."

"Try harder," he declared and walked up to the guards, "who did you catch?"

The guards looked at him and bowed gently before they began, "We found a suspect at the river who wanted to pay with the stolen money," he clarified, handing the prince a pouch.

Nielle looked in, even though he knew it was full of stolen coins just by the gold ribbon of their main bank's brand. He threw the pouch to Laren and looked at the guards: "Where is he?"

,,He´s helping to set up the tent, sir." the guard explained.

Nielle blinked in disbelief: "What?"

"The tents...when we arrived, the wind picked up and two the tents almost fell on him...he felt guilty, so he's helping build them." He explained.

Nielle was silent for a moment in confusion before a loud laugh escaped him, "Your suspect...is setting up tents somewhere without your supervision," he looked at Laren, "do you need new training? You do." He clarified.

"Sir! It's not my camp, I said it wasn't a good idea, but they just won´t listen and-" he started, but Nielle just walked around him and moved on.

"He didn't appear to be aware of the seriousness of the situation at all," the guard began, "he cooperated and showed no signs of escape." One of the guards clarified as he led Nielle towards the tents.