Thief of Scarlett

Two

The guard walked closely behind Prince Tobias and his entourage. All of them where laughing at crude jesture towards the servent's, the ladies, or anyone the could insult. Prince Tobias never put his input due to everyone at this court is here at his father's pleasure. If the prince was caught being disorderly the punishment is severe.
    His advisor walked quickly to the side of him giving him the details needed for the council meeting. Tobias spoke quickly repeating the words.
     Dameins eyes wandered around the hall. Everyone stopped to bow for the prince, but this one maid. Her looked in her direction and froze just for a moment. A small glint in his eye shifted to see a slight shine of a glamor. The guards hand went to the hilt of his sword to only take his hand away from it. He knew the slight maroon tint from anywhere. For a few quick seconds both their eyes made contact she smiled a wicked grin and Damien only flashed her a confused look. There could only be a few reasons she was in the palace and unnoticed. He looked at her until she was out of sight His stomach turned into knots there would definitely be bodies. Damien pushed away the instinct to go after her because if he did the girl would be good as dead.
    He turned back to the group walking Infront of him. Turing to the prince And the man speaking unreliablely fast.

    " Thank you"

    " Of course" his advisor bowed and walked into the council chamber taking his place on the long table.
     
Tobias paused at the entrance taking a shallow breath everyone was already bickering. One man by one they all went quiet looking to the door bowing in apologies. The prince rolled his eyes annoyed.

    " And the day begins" Damien came up behind him patting his shoulder.

    " Make it end" Tobias said in a low growl. When it came to the Lord's of the land he had very little patience.

    Damien chuckled " I'm sorry, my prince I can not"

" when will they learn to be quiet in my presence"

" I don't think they will ever learn"

Tobias walked towards his seat at the opposite end of the table. Damien followed close behind while his friends took seats next to there father's or empty seats. He stood just behind Tobias his hand on the hilt of his blade ready for any problem that might arise.

" Now that everyone has been quiet shall we get started"

One by one all the subjects that his advisor had spoken about was talked about. Resources sent to the troops in the west and south, the death count, and the Harvest. It had been a hard winter for the kingdom and a great harvest had come out of it. The food would be equally distributed to all the town's and merchants guilds.

" My Lord" Tobias shot his eyes to a young boy sitting towards the middle.

" You may speak"

" There is still this issue of the out skirts of the city"

" The poor people on and just outside the walls?"

The boy nodded " I'm sorry but the king has stated he will personally see the issue. If you have concerns Scarlett boy you may see the king"

" Of course" he boy bowed and sat down.

The Lord's again brought up the matter of his engagement to Princess Calena of the empire Alithia. They kept resuring that she was a beautiful woman and would birth sons for the throne. Tobias only sat back in his chair resting his face on his hand. And the one thing that hit hard was her arrival would be in just a matter of weeks.