The war council gathered, still commenting on the news in the king's absence. The king made quite an appearance, walking in the room with her hands closing in the back, thinking, just like her father when he was making war plans. She sat on the throne and waited for all to be seated too.
Everyone took their place in silence and the doors to the hall closed behind the king, and the bersekers posted close to the walls, frozen in place. The blue-eyed monk was following her two steps behind. He set down behind her, to her right, just a once she stood by her father's side, making his position known this way.
After long hours of debates regarding the tax reglementation in the north, because of the new alliance with the mountain people, they started to talk about the princesses fit to marry th
