As Gora walks towards the throne room the halls become more and more crowded it seems she spent too much time tending to the burning dress by the time she makes it to the throne room the crowds are already locked in pce. trying her best to move into the throne room but is blocked by the many people trying to reach the stairs balconies of the room. impatient as ever gora finds a way around to the side door in the throne room. three guards stand in front of her preventing her from entering this way. Though confident as ever gora approaches them with little haste”excuse me im needed in there”
the guards look at the sokaran woman confusedly with much contempt “What are you talking about dy? This here is the meeting of king Onei’s defense on the luuton invasion only those with high military rankings and of noble birth are allowed in here”
his voice is quite stern as he speaks to gora. Gora’s veins almost pop out of her head listening to this guard never in her life has she been confused with some lowborn”i understand that sir but im the grand chief of Sokara grand daughter next in line to be grand chief i am giving my aid in this upcoming conflict”
as annoyed as she may be she maintains her best at politely talking to the guards though it seems to bier no fruit“Don’t lie to me ma’am i was told that the alliance with Sokara was denied i don’t know who you are but you wont be getting into this room”
Inside the room the meeting has already begun. The high king looks among his subordinates that have gathered today. Rex and cofus would be looking around the room and the balconies for gora confused where she might be”i don’t understand she knows where it is how can she not be here?”
cofus procims quite nervously“I knew i should of led her here but she was so pushy to be left alone i was sure she could manage.”
before rex and cofus can continue the two low kings take their seats and the high king moves to stand in front of a podium. The high king once again looks around the room to see cofus and Rex nervously looking around. He sees that gora is not present and starts searching the room discreetly himself. At the side door at the wall to his right he’d see gora violently shaking a guard as two more would be trying to restrain her and drag her away.
His mouth drops and quickly in the most presentable way he can he makes way to gora and yells at the guards”what in the ancestors names is going on here?” one of the guards stops trying to restrain gora and bows to king “I’m sorry your sacredness this woman was trying to enter through the noble entrance”
The guard seems to be in a panic sweating heavily his face has a big bruise on it from a stray fist from gora as she filed about as they tried to restrain her. Gora looks furious still violently shaking a guard as she points to the high king”is this how you treat your guest high king? How unacceptable i have half a mind to pack my bags and head home now!”
her words contain much wrath as even the middle aged king quivers a bit. “You impudent fools you will release her at once or i will have you burned alive myself!” Immediately the guard that was still trying to restrain her stops and falls to floor bowing before his king. Gora drops the one she had been shaking furiously he falls to his knees as well and the final guard had already been bowing before the king had finished his sentence.
Gora huffs and dusts herself off”you are lucky sokarans are more forgiving than you astrou king Onei i can’t imagine the fuss this would of caused had the reversed happened in my grandfathers pace”
Gora looks the high king straight in the eyes when saying this. Her eyes hide no fear and no wavering. She moves past him and finds her seat next to cofus and rex. the king looks towards her with an odd feeling in him. Never in his life had someone so openly threaten him and yet there was nothing to be done about it. Deep down he had a feeling gora would be a necessary ally in this coming conflict. So without any further dey he makes his way back to the center of his little stage that his throne lies on. He gnces around the room one st time and begins” i thank you all for coming in these troubling times. Many of you have traveled from the far corners of our kingdom with your troops ready for battle and for that you have my deepest gratitude. The flying raiders of the east seem no longer satisfied with the nds of the lisads and wish to expand into ours. We must now come together as a unified force to fend off these savages. As mighty as we may be our forces have never battled any men on flying beast before. Our fmes only reach high enough to attack them when their diving to attack us with their ice” they seem to be attacking every 5 days or so, they’ll destroy a vilge plunder it take the plunder back to their mountains and then return to raid more. a handful of vilges have already been destroyed. We must send the majority of our forces to our border to fend them off. There’s 16 vilges within this region so each each vilge will have 2 squads of knights in them then one on both sides of the outskirts between their neighbors.we will set up high watch towers in the region between each vilge if the luutons are spotted you are to unch a fre so that the guard towers will send for reinforcements. The luutons seem to only have one sufficient raiding party what started as 700 strong war party has slowly been widdled down to 500 over the st few raids with our new from the reinforcements from the rest of our kingdom well be able to fend off these invaders in with ease!”
The rooms becomes an uproar of cheers as they king so confidently procims the war will soon be won before they have even considered it a war. Gora looks unmoved by the kings speech they have assembled a tremendous force. In only 6 weeks they had gathered well over 80 squads of knights, and have raised over 10000 levies with the already 20 squads of knights and the 2000 soldiers defending the border making for a grand total of over 100 squads of knights and 12000 levies. While they definitely had the number advantage, Gora wondered if it would be more like shooting fish in a barrel for them. Rex gnced over at gora feeling her ck of confidence in them. Gora’s doubt cracks his unyielding faith in his kingdom that he had fought so hard to unite.
He ponders as to how she could have doubts. to him the war is won, soon the savages will-he thinks to himself when did he start thinking of this as a war? Were these luutons not savages of the north, another people for us to simply swat away like the Terraens of the west and the bsted alquurs of the sea. How could these beast riders stand in the way the unified astran kingdom what does she know that he doesn’t? He thinks to himself quite paranoid as if he’s trying to stop himself from even thinking about it.
