Moonlight's Mistake

The king's Banneret-

Mattheo's pov

"Damian, get the roll scripturtes on the table and Desler's roll scriptures too. "

"I'll get it in a minute ."Damian replied .

I've been reviewing paper works for the past 7 hours straight and maybe 3 more hours of work will do it.

while I was working , damian knocked the door .

" Come in . Put them here."

" You do realise that if Desler finds about what you've been doing then he's not going to let it slip."

"I promised someone to keep this town safe and sound and if that does not happen . I'll happily die doing so."

" I know but....."

"get out ."

something about the charts did not sit right .

The seneschal asked for 190 thousand gold for building the main pathway and renew the castle and main province but the amount that was actually used is just about 40 thousand . There was also a ravish party two days prior to the money settlement with Orlanda as a guest, that can never be good for once. The only thing that does not make sense is why would he do this ? The king spends treausurable amounts of money on parties and the seneschal has a heirarchial lineage of generals and advisors loyal to the king. He doesn't have any reason to suddenly betray the high throne and without thinking of his own prestige , jump off to a conclusion of forgery for money.

What is the missing lead here ? Jumping to conclusions make everything worse than it could ever have been .

There's definitely something I'm missing here .

"Damian , get the chief seneschal's lineage records along with all his asset roll scriptures and personal information . Make sure you don't leave a clue of any suspicion."

"Yes lord."

The high king was Desler's puppet and I was his banneret. That's what they called me

The dark knight .

Giesler was the king's smith. It had been long since he once made a battle sword and that had been making his patience wain . The last time he made a sword that martyred the rival king was 10 years ago for the previous king but after his death and the succession of his son . No battles have been fought since and all in the king's capability is to give peace settlements for our land .

He is a weak king and he knew that , So did Desler . Desler made his way to the high trusted court of ministers and started slipping into the the state's matters . The king was too injudicious to believe all his court.

The fact is no one truly trusted him but he did. That was his mistake

blind trust.......leads to a path of pain and suffering.

Desler was the chief commander and he had the best access to the millitary .

He had the records , he had the power and the king was left  

naked

Desler forced the king into taking a vow and signing off the scripture to slavery of Desler . He became the puppet ruler.

And desler became famous as

The king assailant

"My lord you called for me ?" The smith asked .

"Giesler, I want you to make something for me ."

"I can't dare to defy you , banneret ."he replied.

"I want you to make twin carrack swords , infused with emeralds. No such thing shall be made after you make the swords. Vow for it."

"But what will I get in return . "He smiled

"A treaure that'll be so mighty that you won't be able to spend in a lifetime."

"I trust the banneret as a man of his word."

"I Giesler , Son of Monesla , vow to my life in the witness of the high gods and the banneret that thou shall not make another carrack sword after this . "

"Good"

I return back to the mansion and a smile crept on my face.

I knew something was off .

Jasmine's pov

I told my plans of not returning to estorfill and he happily agreed cause in all sincerity all he did there was do errands and waste his knowledge .

Since an early age me and Lucas were visibly worlds apart from each other .

He liked his books , roll scriptures and the comfort of his wooden desk , quills and smell of old books . While I on the other hand was a wild child , i hated the proceedings of the royal court but I took a liking to it when they were discussing war strategy .  It was something so wicked , so fresh . No one could be ever sure of the outcome and the one who was the closest to the future outcome , won .

I trained with the knights , the very best of their kind . I was proficient with the knowledge of weapons , war strategy and millitary commanding since an early age . Lucas was annoyingly good with the scholars .

We were known as the ' pacimilifists ' I found it very annoying but beautiful at the same time .

I was the millitant while he was the pacifists.

We were the children people dreamt of having and god knows how good it felt . Until it all fell down .

Our mother died due to a rare disease . The doctors were incapable of even identifying it for all they could cure it . I still remember the defeaning silence i felt as I saw my mother's body lying in a coffin . I wanted to scream , I wanted to kill anyone in my visible sight who saw my mother so pale ,without the shimmer in her eyes , without her beautiful honey like voice flowing into my ears , without her scoldings but more than anything what I wanted was for her to wake up and cradle me in her arms just like she used to. We were left desolate .

flashback

"Mom why are you playing with us like this . Wake up , the game's over , everyone's gone now . Please I beg you , just come back ."I pleaded her . I felt a hot stream of something wet on cheeks . All I could feel was pain .

Lucas was trying to cope up with the fact that she wasn't with us anymore . Even in her last moments we felt hope that some mystical being would come and treat her . I felt my life coming crashing down as she took her last breathe.

"Lucas , Jasmine , promise me something ." she breathed heavily .

"Anything for you mom. "we both replied in a unison .

"Live happily , with your father . Don't think this is your fault dear . After I'm gone , go into the world out there and find out the beauty of this nature , don't ever let anything stop you, eat properly as I won't be there to feed you, when you will find someone you love don't ever let them go and remember this last thing .  

I will always love you ."a tear slipped down her beautiful face .

"Mom , why are you saying that ? You're not leaving us ?Mom? MOM? MOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM!!? SOMEONE HELP!" I cried out shouting , begging for help but no one helped , they all just looked , pitying my crippled state .

but no one helped .

end of flash back

I thought about the day as a tear escaped my eye .

I wish that beautiful things would never come to end . But the reality stings me , it always had to come to an end.

author's note

i wish this was longer but i don't know how to start something after this .