THE CATALYST

War threat

Henry's P.O.V

I look at Patrick as he laughs at how stubborn the princess can be ,,"that is all because you spoil her too much brother" I tell him as I join in the laugh.I realise just how tense he is right now and I wait for him to tell me what the matter is."I hear that the southern armies are gathering ,I hear they are aquiring new weapons and training their troops,, a few were spotted near our borders and rumour has it that they are joining forces with eastern armies,I hear they may be planning on waging war with us to expand their kingdoms." he says and I get why he is tense.It has been over a hundred years since we went to wars with the neighbouring kingdoms.The last war was won but we lost something precious.We lost our youngest brother Dan and the wound and pain of his death still haunts us.He was too young for the battlefield but still we both agreed to let him join as he promised he would stay close to Patrick but then like any other young knight he was too reckless or should I say he wanted to prove himself to be worthy of being called a knight that he didn't see just how close he got to the enemy lines ,,,"he was brave till his last breath he died with a smile on his face" Patrick says with a lot of emotions in his voice."So how do you suggest we go about this?" I ask him "if it were just one kingdom then it would have been easier but now they are two kingdoms,we have a vast and well equipped army but we will suffer more losses if we are to go head on with these too kingdoms keeping in mind that eastern kingdom relies heavily on the witches and we don't have many of them right now plus the terrain of the front they may bring the war to may not be that favourably.We will win the war but more live will be lost and there would be a lot of loss and destruction if we do this alone." he says and I know he is right."So what do you suggest" I ask him ." I suggest we ask for an alliance with King Braxton,, well he is a vampire technicall an original to add on and his army is fully a vampire amry so is his kingdom and we know their history with the witches.That would give us an upper hand in this plus we've had a peaceful co-existance and trade between us has been good and I'm positive he would agree to the alliance provided we give a reason to join the war and also give promise a good share of whatever we will conquer in the war" ..Send a emisaries to them and let them tell him of the offer I tell him,, "or maybe I can personally go to him "he says and I agree