Once the mage had arrived in his chambers Damien looked at him and spoke, “Yes I’m glad you came to meet with me I have some things to discuss with you. First, however, it is time for lunch.” With that Damien began to eat his lunch of beef roast and stewed carrots. Once he had finished he stood and moved to the window and looked out over the training fields. “I sense a plot against me Archibald.” he said, “Someone intends to attempt to overthrow me.” He turned to face the mage to judge his reaction. “I find the generals nervousness odd. Don’t you? Most of the castle staff behaves normally. Mind you some tend to have a twitch as I have noticed their head jerks to look behind them a lot, and you certainly aren’t nervous of anything. So why is he?” he sat back at his desk and brought out a large scroll from his drawer. “This is everything the general has done in recent time,” he said handing the scroll to Archibald, “everything from acting without orders to being later, something everyone knows not to do. Tell me do you see anything there that you think is odd?”<br/>The king stood and went over to a hidden safe in the wall and took out a parchment that bore his royal seal. He walked over and stood in front of Archibald and spoke, “This is a list of information I need from the queen but I have no way of contacting her without arising suspicion of our plans to take over the kingdom. I was hoping that you would have a way of discreetly contacting her and retrieving the information from her.” He sat back down behind his desk and waited for an answer.