Chapter 58: One bone, two blows.
"What are you waiting for? Escort the princess away, she is grounded for two months and the consort three months and not one like I had ordered. They will not receive any allowances during that time, in fact confiscate their private money as well. Send them to castle in Wakefield and take some teachers to teach them the rules." The king ordered.
Just like her mother, the princess screeched and shouted as she was escorted away, She did not display the kind of behavior that was expected of a princess, it left many people with frowns on their faces.
In their society, it did not take much for one to go from desirable to possible explosion that everyone kept a distance from to avoid scandal.
The punishment that the king meted was considered to be minor to the Thorin’s that were present and some other nobles. If any other person had called the crown princess a bitch, they would have been thrown in prison already. Even though the king appeared to be punishing his consort and daughter, he was truly not doing so.
All he was doing was keeping them out of the eye of the public until what they had done died down, it would not be surprising to anyone if within a month the consort was seen in castle grounds or in the chambers of the king.
As for the princess, many were willing to bet that they would see her in some of the most expensive jewelry shops in Eldoria within a fortnight. There was no way the king was going to leave her penniless, in fact he was probably going to give her a stash of gold and silver before she left for Wakefield castle.
Sigrid could have kept pushing, but she did not, it was best to do things in small doses. She gestured to the lord mage to take over.
He stood up and bowed to the king. "My king, your mood has been ruined, please allow our mage estate to introduce you to a new kind of entertainment that will delight you."
The king’s eyes lit up, anything that came from the hands of the mages was always a good thing.