Ryan

Another boring day in my life. Unfortunately I woke up pretty early today. I don’t know why. Everyone is asleep. I stood up, walked through the hallway, it wasn’t that big. I climbed several floors and entered the balcony. Then I thought how did I force myself to walk so much. I could say that nature is quite alright, but I didn’t care about that at all. There was one sofa in the balcony, so I laid down and tried to sleep. It didn’t work. Time passed, some more time passed, still nothing. Why are those lazy people are still asleep. I want them up. I wanted to get up and knock on servants door and ask her to make me breakfast, but I was too tired for that. Instead I laid the whole time on the sofa, waiting for someone finally to wake up. I thought that it was great idea, I was wrong. Several hours passed, still nothing. Finally I heard footsteps. I made myself to get up and see who was that. It was head chef. I ran to him. When he noticed me he bowed and said: “Good morning, my lord”. I waved hand, even though he was two steps away. “Why aren’t you asleep Lord Ryan?”. Lord Ryan, weird combination, I thought to myself. From my birth I was not meant to rule, my lord father will marry me off and make an alliance, no more use of me than that. Nothing unexpected, I was third on succession chain. My big brother, Lance on the other hand, had all the attention on himself. I almost drowned in my thoughts, so Korthi had to remind me: “How can I serve you my lord?”. “Oh, yea….. I wanted… to…Yea, I wanted to have a breakfast”. “This early my lord? Your lord father and lady mother are still asleep, just as your siblings”. “Yea.. I mean I will eat with them, but… Well… Just bring me sandwich for now, I’ll have the breakfast with my family”. I pronounced each of these words with stutter, I guess I am not fully awake. “As you command my lord”, Korthi the head chef bowed down and went to the kitchen. I wanted to wash my face with cold water. So I commanded one of the handmaidens to bring me to my bathroom. She didn’t make me wait for too much. Cold water on my face felt so good. I still felt sleepy, but I couldn’t manage to sleep. I went to the balcony, soon enough all of the courtiers were awake. I have already eaten my turkey sandwich with extra cucumbers on the balcony. I heard my father’s voice in the hall. I didn’t search for exact words, but judging by the other voice, father was walking with mom. Lovely couple, I would say so. If they weren’t in love they wouldn’t have 6 kids. But process of making kids doesn’t require love at all, just hot blood. When they were crossing the balcony mom noticed me. She approach me: “Good morning Ryan. Why are you up so early?” I wanted to say I woke up earlier, but then understood that I wasn’t in mood to talk. “Yea just happened so”. Mom smiled at me and joined father again. My father ignored me. I didn’t bother to grate him myself. I guess he is angry at me or I did something wrong. Something more than being 3th in the row of succession. As if it was my fault. Lord Edmund is proud and authoritative person. He only cares for his oldest child and nothing more. He cares about younger, but I guess he is just charged to care about younger children by the law. My mother on the other hand was caring woman. Very lovely to look on, she was fair looking. Other male courtiers always had eyes on her. Some of them just liked to watch her, few were in love with her. For me it was really easy to see that. I guess people can’t hide their feelings. Sentimental men are filling my father’s court, but if they weren’t diligent workers they would’ve been out for good. My father hates incompetent and powerless courtiers. He even hanged two, because they were peak of incompetence and they were also acting dishonorably towards mother. I guess poor guys thought that they were too charming that mom would fall for them. They were bloody wrong. If they didn’t try their luck, at most they would be banished from the castle of Oathmore for their casual stupidity. At some point I thought I couldn’t wait for my siblings to wake up, because turkey sandwich was delicious, and I wanted some more, but they woke up, it was just matter of minutes that we would have breakfast. Walking from balcony to dining room was exhausting. I was eager to eat. No matter the fact that I woke up first, I had the gloomiest face around the table. I still found it easy to enjoy the breakfast and easy to ask for more. When we were done, I went to my most beloved room. No one really walked there, it was reserve room, if father will ever throw the party. And of course it was always empty, besides me and my friends. Friends?! I didn’t have much of them either. Just cook’s boy and sometimes his so-called girlfriend joined. I didn’t like her that much. I bet she was dimwitted. Nothing to talk with her about, if she opened her mouth, I wanted to either full it with water to choke her or close it and sew it with a needle. My friend Zack, he wasn’t one of the brightest minds either. Way much better than Gertruda, but still. I jokingly called them “Couple of Erudites”, they thought of themselves as pretty cunning persons too. But it was super easy to see that Zack was pitiful, Gertruda was nature’s one and only mistake. If you closed eye about Zack’s stupidity, he was really affectionate and supporting whenever needs be. I played with him a lot too, but I mostly won. I am really slothful, so mostly we were sitting on the sofas and imagining stuff. His imagination was only small tip of iceberg, while I sometimes was drowning in my own ideas. Still I grew up with him, so ties of childhood bonded us. I ordered someone to bring him to me so we could play. He didn’t work much, so I thought that he would be free. A brief amount of time later, the girl I sent informed me that Zack and Gertruda had left the castle for a walk. I thought to myself, did I mention Gertruda when I sent her? Why would I care where was she. I guess they had a date. I never striked Gertruda as an affectionate person. I didn’t care enough to answer the servant girl, so I just awkwardly smiled and she just left me. Well, I guess Zack left me here to die with boredom. Worst thing, that I wasn’t falling asleep. I could visited father’s council, but politics weren’t my thing. I just used people and that’s all. I just remembered one time when father invited all of the council members for the dinner. I didn’t talk much, but one of the councilor couldn’t just shut up. It didn’t even get to him that he bursted out some of his story that better would’ve been kept as a secret. I wondered how my father would let this low cunning person on his council. Then my mother told me that he was one of the father’s strong vassals. Then everything came clear. Still it saddened me that unexperienced person would be major part of River’s Host’s ruling party. Our region was reknown for its beauty, and Fish’s Throne was one of the strongest castle in Kingdom of Poparal. I asked courtier to call every kid my age to come and play with me. Unfortunately either most of them had blank space in their heads, others were busy working, rest of them were girls so I sent them off. I wondered how I didn’t specify that I wanted someone with brains and boy, cause I didn’t wanted to talk about gowns or hot guy in the castle or how to sew better dresses. Girls in my father’s court were the worst. I would crown Gertrude as the worst, then father’s guard’s girl. She wasn’t dimwitted like Gertrude, but she was really obnoxious. Couldn’t focus on one thing and jumped on another theme. Court was full with fools. I believe that we don’t need to pay our current jester money. The dummy girl, all I know that she is smarter than the most. Sitting isolated in this room was good, better, than listen to the others.

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