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Shumiel Dan didn't understand why he was expected to sit through these meetings of the Council, listening to the lords talk about gossips and things that didn't seem to concern him, and things he had already made decisions on.
Suddenly, he heard someone ask, "And what does the King say on the matter?"
Shumiel Dan lifted his head and pulled is thoughts from the princess Peressa.
"Forgive my absent-mindedness, my lords," he said, reassuming his kingly air. "Would you be kind enough to repeat the subject of conversation?"
"Your Majesty's mind wouldn't happen to have been on the princess Peressa, would it? I hear she is quite ravishing," responded a lord named Vandine, with a mischevious grin.
Shumiel Dan smiled calculatingly, and aknowledged Lord Vandine with a nod. "Surely such matters as you gentlemen have been speaking of are far more importance than one princess from far away. Now, as my dignity seems to be at stake here, would you please relate the topic of conversation, for which you seemed to be so eager to know my own opinion?"
Though Shumiel Dan had not been king of Alacia long, most of his servants and advisors new when a question was an order.
"We were simply discussing the matter of Lord Davarne having seen a woman in a royal blue cape fleeing into the Shem'kar forest late last night. Have the people not been cautioned by us not to enter that wood at midnight? They say that thieves or perhaps ghost roam the trees at midnight," answered Vandine.
"I have heard such superstitions, my lord, but I assure that the forest is quite harmless, since the last royals of this country have been overthrown. And is it my place, even as king, to tell my citizens where they may go?"
The lords and advisors fell silent and the Council dispursed a few minutes later, to the relief of the King.
Part 5 of The Blue Cape dream story.
To be continued...
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