The princess still remembered the day she met the mother of Sieg. It was at one of those big parties where all the big shots convened. She didn’t know Sieg back then, but the mother of Sieg suddenly walked up to her that day. Her eyes had been bloodshot and puffy. She had apparently been crying for days after Marquis Mordred, her husband and the father of Sieg, had forcefully exiled Sieg out of his territory. He did this after he found out that his sons soul shard was a slime. He wouldn’t allow his wife to go with him, he had said to her that she was needed to take care of their 2 year old twin daughters.

Vyrna Alma, the mother of Sieg, prostrated herself in front of the princess. She begged her to take her son into the Elite Soul School. She stuffed a pouch filled with gems and gold, all the money she possessed, into the hands of the princess. Vyrna had asked her to never tell Sieg anything of this. She said that he was too weak and that it already was a blessing that her husband didn’t kill him. She kept on begging the princess until her husband found out about it. He rushed up to them and dragged his wife over the floor. After having forcefully send his wife back home the Marquis apologized to the princess, he said that his wife had gone a bit insane after finding out that her son’s potential was so trashy.

The princess didn’t buy it, even though she was only 10 years old back then. Her dragonic bloodline gave her enhanced senses and her upbringing as a princess made her a lot sharper than any other person of her age. She didn’t believe what the Marquis told her. She decided to accept the money and told her dad to accept Sieg into the Elite Soul School. Her father knew how stubborn his daughter could be and allowed this to happen.

But the princess had wanted to tell Sieg what happened for the last few years. She had told her dad that she was going to tell him the truth and that Sieg was old enough to hear it. Her dad however forbade her of doing that. The kingdom had become unstable. There were spies among the nobles from another force. The same force that had been guiding the Angels to do some questionable things. He didn’t know which nobles it were, but they were waiting for an opportunity.

They waited for the king to do something that harmed a noble. They waited to use such an opportunity to rile up all the nobles into a revolution and take over the throne. He couldn’t afford Sieg going haywire. If he somehow managed to kill his father and people saw the connection he had with the royal family, then a revolt would immediately ensue. Killing all the revolting nobles would weaken of the country, which was unacceptable with the angels of the Eyphidia kingdom being so restless at the time. The king was stuck between a rock and a hard place. So he decided that it was better for now to keep Sieg in the dark despite his daughters pleas.

“So, what did you find out about Sieg Miny (nickname princess)?”, asks the king, pulling her out of her thoughts.

She just looked at her dad with a dissatisfied expression.

“Oh come on, please don’t do that Miny. I know that our dragonic bloodline makes our emotions stronger and more straightforward, but I can’t afford to let my emotions lead me in this precarious situation.”, says her dad.

“Those emotions are also the only reason why the elves wanted to be allies with us! We would never have gotten a request to ally ourselves with the elves if we had just been tyrants and emotionless assholes like the leaders of the other countries on this continent.”, says Amina with a dissatisfied expression.

“Miny, please not now.”, says the king while looking tired and stressed out.

“What happened dad?”, asks the princess noticing her dads strange behavior .

“Your mother got attacked while returning from the Elven kingdom.”, says her father while sighing.

“What? Is she okay?”, asks the princess with a distressed voice.

“Yes, she is resting now to recover from her injuries. Don’t worry, the wounds were all superficial.”, says the king with a reassuring smile.

“Is that why you overreacted when you found out that Sieg acquired a dragonic bloodline?”, says the princess while putting her hands on her hips.

“Yes”, whispered the king.

“You will stop annoying him now?”, asks the princess while glaring at the king.

“But he…!”, Says the king but gets interrupted.

“I’ll castrate you in your sleep and tell mama when she wakes up that you are a bully if you keep this up.”, says the princess while grinning.

The king feels a chill going down his spine, he really would be in for something if his wife found out.

“Fine.”, he said while sighing.

“So can I now go tell Sieg what his mother did for him? I personally think it’s the perfect time to take action against that asshole of a father. You heard the rumors too right? That his mother might be detained in her own house? We should tell Sieg now and help him save his mother!”, the princess says while getting agitated.

“NO!”, roars the king, “The kingdom is in a completely unstable situation. The angels are starting a war against us and the elves and we have to prevent a revolution from happening in OUR OWN FUCKING KINGDOM!”

“We can’t let our childish emotions take over right now! We don’t know who is behind the scenes of all this. We don’t know why the angels are already going to war again, so short after they got almost annihilated in the last big war. The person who is controlling all these events from behind the scenes is still unknown, so we can’t afford to help Sieg right now. His mother isn’t in immediate danger. I want to help to you know? But we can’t with an impending revolution!”

The king took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. His wife getting hurt shook him more than he thought it had. His hands were shaking because of the stress. He suddenly felt the hands of his daughter on top of his. She was frowning.

“Fine, I understand that we are in a dangerous situation right now.”, she says while sighing and calming down her fluctuating emotions.

“But we still need to stop the news of Sieg gaining so much power from reaching his father.”

“Don’t worry”, says the king while grinning, “we’ll make the Marquis fall sick. We might not be able to kill him , but we can still make him completely immobile. Everybody will suspect a sudden death among the nobles, but no one will suspect anything if he is just sick for a few months. They won’t be able to start a revolution over a sick noble.”

“hah”, sighed the king while smiling wryly, “I sometimes don’t really know if our strengthened emotions are a blessing our a curse. This dragonic bloodline does really make us a lot more emotional.”

“I’m happy to still have emotions. I have seen those other leaders from the other kingdoms and I don’t want to become as emotionless or as cruel as them. I feel happy being too able to help someone who deserves it when I can.”, she says while smiling proudly.

“Yeah but don’t make your boyfriend, the crown prince of the elves, jealous by helping Sieg.”, says the king while chuckling.

“Igy would never be jealous! He knows how much I love him. Not every relation between a woman and a man has to be sexual”, she says while pouting.

“Haha, well I’m glad you fell in love with Igomar! The elves don’t believe in a forced marriage and neither do I. It’s good to see that both sides of the alliance will be connected this way.”, says the king while laughing and reminiscing about how he first fell in love with his wife.

The situation eased a bit up.

“Don’t worry too much about the mother of Sieg. Our spies have reported that they might have found a clue that could lead us to the instigator of all this. When this whole situation dies down we will do everything in our power to help Sieg.”, the king says while smiling at his daughter.

(Full name of crown prince of the elves: Igomar Lightgrove)