It is always to meet totally knew people. Specially when every word you say might be used against you. Good thing Rowan Aled has been studing in Orseas. Thanks to it. He can talk with other nobles. It is easy since some people are quite close to him.
As in other side Rowan Albert, Sara and Herman are extremely lost. Of course they can welcome and act nice to everyone, but they most keep talking. Since this is a party acting nervous isn´t the most smartest idea. To their suprise Aled had predicted this. So he had asked some of his close friends from capital to talk with them. Of course they understood what he was planning. So they were happy to help Rowan family in this situation.
“I had heard some rumors about the war. Is it true that you have only about 100 soldiers here? I know that you had royal army´s help, but how could you survive against that kind of attack.”
At first Albert was nervous about man two heads taller than him asking suddenly, but he figured that his son had asked him to talk. Thanks to this he could talk without being nervous what to talk about next.
“Thank you for asking. I´m happy to say the most important aspect was great soldiers how gave it all. Although I could thank everyone for their work. I still want to make every single one of them to be know how bravely they fought for our country.”
What he said was partly true but also wrong. It was truth that he was happy about his soldiers, but behind the scenes there was darker truth. It seems like Saisagus country attack and king´s visit wasn´t just accident. Looking after the war it seems like enemy didn´t have any plans to attack. It looks like enemy just pretended to attack so they could say to their country that they tried. Unfortunately when Sepro planned swamp attack they cut enemy forces two s they couldn´t simply retreat. It almost looked like someone from Polgon kingdom had planned this attack without anyone knowing about it on the battlefield. So Albert couldn´t think his soldiers fought for Polgon kingdom. They were set up to this and this hidden enemy must be here tonight.
“Such a high praise for your soldiers. I would like to meet them when given change to.”
“Of course I would like to show everyone of them to everyone, but they deserve to rest after so much stress. There is actually one of my best soldiers here together with my son. If you would like to hear how soldiers work here, you can ask him directly. Of course if he describes me as demon then he is just exaggerating.”
After saying this not just noble in front of him, but all nearby visitors started to laugh. He didn´t expect this kind of reactions, but he knew that this wasn´t a mistake for his part. It is just. Soon many visitors arrived in front of George how wasn´t ready to talk about how devilish his viscount was.
Thanks to this room became comfortable to everyone. Not just Tetrao village. Everyone visiting were troubled about how to act.. Now they knew that there wasn´t anything to be scared about. Sometimes just light push is needed to make everyone come together.
Unfortunately some weren´t convinced just from this. To their happy news the rest royals were arriving soon.
“What are we going to do? They are starting to like them. If this continue any further then we can´t stop him moving forward.”
“I know. I will as commander Nicolas how he is going to start his war exercise.”
“Although I don´t like this kind of direct way asking, but seems like it is the only option left.”
“True. He isn´t stupid. He propably knows soon enough our plan. So do you have any plans for stoping him talking?”
“No I don´t. We can´t use hostages. It is proven that using them is useless against him. He is too quick and calm minded person.”
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In the past Nicola´s family was taken by criminals. Unfortunately for them when he arrived to change places he attacked so fast that they couldn´t react. Furthern more this is hunting village. They can take out enemies in a moment notice.
In that case what if we could convince everyone to believe the next attack is coming soon?”
“What are you talking about? In this situation people are thinking that Saisagus country has become weaker from the past. In this situation I would presume that we are trying to attack them. How can we convince everyone if even I don´t believe it.”
“It is because that attack´s preparations are actually happening right now. I have seen it by my own eyes.”
“What are you talking! Huh.”
Without him noticing he shouted loudly so everyone could heard it. To his surprise he noticed his friends smile. He was hoping for that kind of reaction. There wasn´t any preparations for an attack. He just made up a false rumor.
“Sorry. I shouted without thinking. Continue. Don´t worry about me. I just have to talk with commander Nicolas as fast as possible.”
Thanks to this when they ask Nicolas his ideas then he won´t understand the truth after this shout. We can make this work. We only need one real attack from our men by blaming the enemy and then we can take the viscount out from our mind.
Sometimes just one outrageous rumor is enough to make everyone scared and worried at same time. In the normal situation people could keep their mind calm, but now everyone has experienced war which no one could predict.
“So you heard it too. Enemy is preparing for full scale war. How can they start a war when they just lost one? Also this war was our over all victory. Without any change to say other wise.”
“I heard that even northern empire is planning to do it too. This might have been prepared for years. There is a change that enemy lost the war by their own account to make us all underestimate them.”
“Actually people are saying that the viscount was in that plan too. They must have planned to do this for a long time.”
Of course the only one´s how talk were some how didn´t accept viscount´s merits. Although it was just false talk but some innocent and kind hearted people believed this. Once good atmosphere was now ruined.
Actually situation wasn´t as bad as everyone had predicted. Tetrao village has been prepared to up coming fight against Polgon kingdom. Of course situation isn´t good, but it might be worse. The most important thing is to keep everyone happy and keep them welcome to be here.
Inside of this trouble has come cotton candy. No one knows how brought it over, but thanks to it everyone´s mind has come concentrated into it. There is many theories about how invented it, but no prove has revealed itself.
How is it made? How can something be so light? How can it be this delicious? These were questions that people where asking. The most important questions were. How can it be this cheap? Why it was invented here?
Thanks to this people are more interested how can they earn part of the profit since demand is so high that people are prepared to buy it more than the market price. Those people were prepared to risk even their reputation and live to it. Of course they would. Almost all mercants are dreaming about change like this. Unfortunately no matter how hard they try. They can´t find how is making it.
“It seems like it was good idea to bring cotton candy out on this moment. Moment couldn´t be any better.”
“You can say it again. More importantly have you brought the ingredient? I hope you follow my plans accurately Tom.”
“Of course. There is full cart of sugar outside. And don´t worry. Nobody knows that is is ingredient. I have made sure of it.”
Business is currently blooming out of control. Even to the amount that they can sell for cheap price. Reason why they aren´t asking a lot is to keep everyone excited and keep everyone interested. If they start selling for high price then cotton candy´s reputations might only last for short time. Only problem is to keep making it as fast the demand. Currently their making capacity is lower than demand.
“Well done. In that case this is next money back. Hurry up and bring more of it. We must keep making it as fast as possible. We can´t loss this kind of perfect moment up.”
“Of course. We have already prepared our seller. We must only buy. We will see soon.”
Not always good business is same as happiness. Now everyone must work more than their body can keep up. This is another kind of battlefield. I can´t tell which was more stressful or harder from two of them.