Tale of the Dark Hills | Jeongmin/ BangTwice Fantasy

Underwater Conspiracy

Yoonan

"Two weeks?", the white prince Jeonghan is staggered to know that to reach Greenland from Yoonan, it takes a fortnight.

"Yes my lord", the adviser replies him politely, "as we don't share borders with Greenland, we have to cross the Wonderland"

"Can't we travel over the Blue Forest? The area to cover in that province seems less than Wonderland", Jeonghan suggests.

"Well...",the adviser hesitates to say, "unfortunately, we don't have any aliance with Blue Forest, so we don't have any permit to enter their land".

The prince sighs in dismay, shaking his head.

"Plus...", the adviser speaks up again,"though the area of Blue Forest is less but it's full of dense forest and hilly terrain, making it very difficult to travel"

The white prince is engrossed in thoughts and plans, burring his beautiful pale face in his palms. Suddenly he lift his face and asks,

"Water way? How about water way? Greenland has port right?"

The idea startles the adviser, he immediately shakes his head, "No my lord, we don't use that path"

"Why? It seems to take lesser time, may be just a week to reach there", the white prince questions him, looking at the map, spreaded on the table.

"We have to cross the black water, my lord. We can't do that", the advisers inform with a lowered head.

"Black water? The sea near the Dark Hills?", Jeonghan spots that on the map.

"Yes, that is forbidden but if we go to Greenland by waterway, we ought to cross that"

"Is it illegal?", Jeonghan asks.

"Not really but forbidden because of the cautionary tale"

"Hmm..", the prince takes a pause to sort out his thoughts, then declares,

"We will go by waterway"

"My lord !!!", the adviser stares him with frightened eyes, "I fear..."

"Fear!!! It's disgusting that a baseless fear of something invisible, mythical being has been forcing us to do something foolish !!!", the prince roars in anger, silencing everyone in that room.

"Tell me!! If only we could use that waterway, wouldn't our foreign business grow? Wouldn't we save much more time and fortune?", the question asked by the white prince, earns nothing but silent nods, in agreement.

"But I fear, the great king will not agree to take this risk", the adviser counters with a shaking voice.

"I, myself, will talk to him in this regard. I am not only doing this for my own sake. If I can open the way, that has been closed down because of a millennium old prejudice, it will be beneficial for our land also"

Saying those words, prince Jeonghan ends the meeting, no one else dares to object as they are very much familiar with the stubbornness of the prince.

The prince on the other hand huffs, tries to relax his mind. Though he has acted all cool and fearless, he is as concerned as others. It's not like he discards the existence of Vampires or any supernatural beings, he can't do that, especially when he himself does not fall into the so called 'natural' category of humans. However, someone needs to take risks, may be the Vampires did extinct back then, who knows? No one actually verified, rather lived in the fear of unseen. The Green invitation is so far the best thing happened to him, so far the greatest honour is showed to him. For someone who is not respected in his very own family, it's a big thing to be honored like that, by one of the greatest kingdom.