A few days passed, and Ari and Jacob had talked every day. They had become good friends in the few days they had known each other. Jacob brought her breakfast and tea, and he had many interesting stories to tell about life outside the kingdom, and he liked that Raven listened. But nothing could've prepared him for what was going to happen next.<br/><br/>Gerard knocked on Ari's room before entering without permission, as usual. Jacob and Ari were sitting together, talking. He smiled - just what he wanted. He walked up to Ari and handed her a clipboard. "Princess Ari - on this clipboard is a list of servants that your father personally hired last week, when Jacob arrived. As you can see, Jacob is not on the list. Jacob is a liar - he's not a servant at all." With that, he took Jacob by the arm and dragged him out of Ari's room.<br/>"Wait! Ari, I can explain - oof!" Jacob shouted as Gerard punched him in the face to shut him up, in plain sight of the princess. He dragged him down the stairs and into the throne room, and threw him before Arthur. Gerard got down on one knee.<br/>"Your highness, this man has pretended to be a servant in order to get close to your daughter." Gerard said. "He's most likely an assassin of some sort. Shall we banish him? Execute him?"<br/>Arthur stroked his chin in thought as he pondered the two choices Gerard had presented him with.<br/><br/>Sent from my SM-S820L using Tapatalk