"How about the task I assigned to you?" He asks Mortrine who sits farthest from him on his left.
"I am working on it, Your Majesty. The free-thinkers are not easily persuaded to do anything but I am sure they will see reason with time. Their only option is to sell their weapons to us." Mortrine says. "It would be easier if you allowed me to command their co-operation with your name, Your Majesty. They are still your subjects, they will do as you say."
"No. We must get them without involving me. It must be of their own will." He says decisively.
"Mortrine, have you already forgotten what happened when the traitor General Arwin tried to force the free-thinkers to sell him weapons? His mistake is the main reason why he did not become king." Burquidt, another member of his council and his s
