73 LEVITIA’S DISK

1014 AF Seedmonth

Day 70

Mikael Devonhurst

"Son, will you accompany your sister to the Palace today?" Mikael's father asked as he slumped in his chair after breakfast.

Mikael glanced over at his sister Arianna as she prepared herself to meet the Crown Prince.

"She looks giddy," said Mikael. "Let her handmaiden go with her." His father frowned a bit before sighing. Then he said

"Do you not approve of this wedding?" asked his father.

"It's not that," said Mikael, fiddling with his spoon. "The court is a dangerous place. You know that. Mother knew that." And he seems to stressed the word mother like it means something.

His father closes his eyes and let a sigh filled with regrets.

"Your mother knows it too late" His father said, his eyes show sorrow only certain people could. It is a sorrow of being alone.

"Yes. She knows too little and knows too late" Mikael agree.

There was silence between the pair of father and son for a few seconds before his father said