The Axe in The Tree

Chapter 14

I had messed up so horribly.
My father yelled at me in a private chamber, which was the size of a broom closet and made of cold glossy white marble.
I could hear the king and his sons arguing in the room outside of the closet I was in.
Dominic saying it was his fault.
Evander said he caused me to be upset.
Bradford was suggesting that I become a servant.
Now my father was with the king debating what to do and I sat in  an uncomfortable chair in silence outside the door.
Apparently the tree was a gift and its leaves turned into gold coins when they fell.
The tree was from a land to the far south and only grew at the top of a icy mountain, until the king had one.
And I had slammed the king's son into it.
My sister at least didn't have to hear or see this.
She went home with the carriage.
The light king wanted some kind of apology and payment for his tree.
At first he wanted my death.
Now he wanted me to be a servant to one of his sons.
Evander wasn't interested.
Bradford and Dominic argued with the their father.
I hoped my father was going to step in and not allow this to happen.
I'm his only son!
"Well he hit me. And father you can send a quest for the tree! A calling for great heroes!"
"Well he did hit him." My father said. "I think my son being Dominic's servant is a perfect punishment. And I will send heroes from my kingdom to aid in the quest."
What?
Did he mean me become a servant?
How could my father allow that!?
I'm his only son!
I was about to swing the door open and go into the room yelling, but from the other side of the door echoed one word that made me want to slam my head in the willow wood door full force.

"Agreed."