Chapter 169: The Search Begins
Gunnar seated himself in the leather chair that the Duke once sat in at his large, polished wood desk. The view from that angle was strange. The only other person who had ever sat there was Arthur—rightfully so.
As the knight then took in the scene in front of him, the very child of that knight sat down across from him and waited for instruction on what to do next. He placed out quills and paper for them to begin.
The first on Gunnar’s list of things to do was to pen a letter to His Majesty with thinly veiled begging to be more decisive when it came to the north. There was a heavy emphasis on the suffering of common folk, how monsters would take advantage of their disorganization, and how the apprentices needed more decision-making power as knights.
He read and re-read to ensure he hadn’t said something offensive, something that may make the King further drag his feet. If anything, he decided he ought to seek out Sir Eitan to read over the letter and be sure that it was something that would be taken well by the ever-sensitive King.
Meanwhile, Irene stared at the paper in front of her for quite a while before even deciding how to begin a letter like that to her father.
It was the earliest point of spring, which meant he was officially no longer a knight. Was she meant to refer to her own father as Lord Arthur? It felt unbelievably cold, but she knew that the situation perhaps called for it.
After a while, she began with ’Lord Arthur, my father’ and hoped that it was alright.
"Be sure to tell your father that the message to him isn’t to put the idea in his head that he needs to come to the Duke’s Tower immediately," Sir Gunnar reminded her as he stood up from the large, comfortable chair. "We are not in a state of emergency, merely trying to figure out what we must do next. We will hope that His Majesty decides not to toy with us any longer. The sooner we have a commander for our knights, the better."
"Yes, sir," Irene responded, and she put her head down to finish the letter.