Chapter 80: The spider strikes.

Silence enveloped the room, so much so that you could hear a tiny pin drop on the floor. Not a single fork or spoon was moving, every eye was looking at either the grand duke, Sigrid, the king or the crown prince.

The grand duke’s face paled in fright, he seemed to realize what he had just said, and how his words belittled the king and the crown prince. While he could look down on Sigrid’s family because they were less powerful than he was, the king was different.

Everybody knew, there was nothing king Raff hated more than being looked down on. They held their breath, waiting for him to explode as he usually did in such situations. To their surprise, the king wiped his hands with a towel and then cleaned his mouth and stood up.

"Dinner is over, you can all leave." he declared in a grave voice.

"Your highness..." Donald Silberuss, the grand dukes third son stood up and called out to the king desperately. He wanted to explain that his father’s words should not be blown out of context.

However, it was too late, the king did not turn back, he just continued on his way.

Prince Galen raised a wine glass and toasted at Sigrid, he nodded once and then laughed.

Roland meanwhile mimicked his father’s actions, cleaning his hands and mouth as he spoke slowly. "A lot of people seem to be under the impression that I cannot protect my wife, it seems like I must work harder as her husband and the crown prince of Eldoria to dispel such misgivings." He stood up and bowed his head to the queen. "We will be taking our leave now, mother."

The queen nodded and she gave Sigrid a once over before standing up and leaving as well.

"Well, goodnight everyone." Sigrid stood up slowly, she waved and followed out of the dining room.

to disperse, leaving behind barely touched plates of food and glasses filled with juice and wine. The dinner had started

loudly as he caught up to Roland and Sigrid. "Believe it

and slowed her steps to walk with him. "You must be the fun brother, I am married to the temperamental one, the third prince is the charming one and the others are

boldly and put an arm on Sigrid’s shoulder which Roland quickly pushed away with a dark scowl on

my wife

are using your words and not your fists, oh wow, you surprise me brother. Since when were you this

at him and his lips thinned, Galen his younger brother was annoying just as he

the Vale, world peace, vast wealth, an island where I can live with my family away from this mess we call a family, a father who is not afraid that his sons are plotting to kill him to take the throne, a

"Therapy." Sigrid mumbled.

at her and she shrugged, they did not know what therapy was but in her opinion, they needed it because their parents had obviously screwed up their

enjoy it." Galen rubbed his belly and looked around. "You know what, let me pass by the kitchen and

run back in the direction they were coming

to the Vale if you find it." Sigrid turned around and shouted

her around, took her hand and walked her towards their carriage. He was hungry

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the carriages pulled away from the royal castle, the king was already meeting with his sister Romilda, his strategist or the spider as Mauve had called her. They met in a dimly lit war room where

angst and a faint scent of incense. Romilda was looking at a realistic map of Eldoria on the table, scanning over the various markers that represented

wall slid open and third figure joined them, it was a man in a

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