Chapter 263: Some advice.
Quickly, everyone found themselves to be tongue tied. What else could they say when the queen consort made such a threat? And yet to give up so soon felt wrong, Duke Doug Maximus decided to speak up, damn the consequences!
"Queen mother.." he started in a subservient voice as he stood up, "I apologize for speaking up. It is not my intention to question your authority but we were all under the impression that we would be discussing how the crown prince and princess have decided to overturn everything and establish a new form of leadership that we are unfamiliar with." He looked around, glancing at the those that remained. "We are royal relatives and we support them in their course to develop Eldoria, however we are feeling left out.
Of all the ministerial positions that have been assigned, we got none. Even this ministry of defense does not fall under the stewardship of one of our own."
"You want me to hand over armies to you all." Roland cut in, raising his eyebrows. His voice held a threat within that delivered his suspicions to the other royal relatives quite clearly.
Members of the royal family with armies to command were unsettled royals. In the old days when a king made such a move, it often resulted in someone usurping the throne. The battles were never ending because they all had a bit of power.
What king would sleep comfortably at night knowing that he had a brother or cousin with an army of ten thousand armed men and money to finance and feed it?
"Your words make me curious your grace." Sigrid smiled unnaturally. Her eyes were very chilling and they warned him to tread carefully. "I seem to recall a certain royal relative that raised an army and rebelled this year. What are your intentions your grace?"
Between Roland’s angry eyes, Sigrid’s chilling ones and the Queen consort’s disappointing ones, Doug felt the urge to bite his own tongue.
"I was just making an example I do not mean that I want to raise an army to rebel." Doug nervously said.