Making Plans
Sigh. The king was sad when he thought there were literally hundreds of beautiful and eligible princesses in their country, either from their distant relatives in Draec, or those princesses from their colonies who had sworn loyalty to them for decades.
However, his son chose another woman who was suspicious and would even bring him bad luck of all women!
King Jared remembered the letter of objection delivered by their envoys years ago. The offer for peace and cooperation with Wintermere was rejected flatly by the king.
It was quite surprising because Wintermere was such a small country and many other countries around it had sworn loyalty to Draec.
They knew better than to challenge the much bigger empire in open war.
However, that was exactly what King Rosehill did. He stubbornly refused to concede defeat and instead, he welcomed the war. A war that everybody knew would end tragically on their part.