Past Promises

THE FALL

Trap.

"The King is an easy feat for me, he will swallow everything that I feed him but the General..." the Royal Advisor closes his eyes and falls into deep thinking.

The Commander stays silent as he also tries to think a way to trick the General to fall into their schemes.

And I still trying to find a way to tell their plan to the General but I couldn't think of anything. Being ghost for years didn't help me in learning any ghost talents except for wailing and haunting.

And I don't think haunting will do any good for this situation, I'm trying to make the General listen to me not running away, or even worse, I could trigger an exorcism activity in the Palace.

I should just stay being an audience since my 'King's reign had already ended years ago.

"I know what to do," the Royal Advisor suddenly says and he opens his eyes slowly. His smirk always annoys me, "Gather everyone around and we'll meet after midnight." Then he calls his guard.

"Go to the General's residence and give this to the servant," he gives the guard two silver coins, "Make sure he does everything so the General knows about this, only the General. Go."

***

I followed the guard to the General's residence.

He is being cautious for not letting anyone sees him and since there are only few people in the General's residence, he managed to sneak in smoothly.

A servant comes to him and greets the guard, I guess he is a spy the Royal Advisor planted in the General's residence.

The servant smiles widely when the guard handed him the coins and as hurriedly put it into his pocket for fear anyone sees it.

Then I follow the servant into the kitchen where other servants are gathering around and eating their dinner.

"Where were you?" Another servant asks.

"Oh, I was meeting my brother. I told you I have a brother working as a guard here. He told me he is granted three days off and he is going home, so he was just asking me if I have anything to give to our parents in the village."

"Oh." Then they continued eating silently.

"I just remember, my brother said he was guarding outside the Guest House where the Mings are staying and he said the Royal Advisor went there and stayed about an hour," he starts throwing bait.

"Ey, he must be mistaken. Why would the Royal Advisor stayed too long with the enemies?!"

"Are you saying my brother lied? And he also said he heard from the servants there," he gestures them to get closer, "They are having a meeting after midnight."

"So are you saying the Royal Advisor and the Mings are allies?!" Someone says with a shocked expression.

"Shhh..." the servant put his hand to the other person's mouth and he looks around, "Don't tell this to anyone, my brother might get punished if the Royal Advisor heard he was telling this to anyone. We might also get killed, we servants, our lives don't matter to them!" He warns everyone there.