<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #FFBF80"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Edward d’Alambart</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">The Reeve of the King</span></span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/0f2924cf-6f75-4d40-9624-644687d02b67_zps91f85a12.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Edward was still fuming, even after the crowd had calmed down with the proper victory of Sir Alexander. A lot of things weren’t running as planned. First Sir Hagener lost every bit of countenance and attacked after being defeated. Then Sir Yakari got injured and had to be brought to the infirmary, making Lady Amena rush after him like some teenager in love, something Edward would have to discuss with her later, because her duty was with the Queen regardless how pretty she found the eyes of Sir Yakari. Amena had not yet returned, unlike the guard he had send after her to the infirmary to protect her from her father. Only the news that Amena wasn’t at the infirmary and neither was Sir Yakari, didn’t really help him. He couldn’t play gouvernante for Amena, he had to take care of the kingdom. Damn, the girl had to learn about her duty. She would be in some difficult situation to explain later.<br/><br/>To double his worries he had Lady Adelaide in the royal box, a place where someone as cunning and intriguous like Lady Adelaide never belonged in his opinion. But his hands were bound as the Queen had invited the Lady to her box, so Edward couldn’t throw her out. But having to look in her amused face and hearing her malicious comments about the Erathian nobles made his blood boil. Agreed, Edward had not the best opinion of most of the nobles either and a lot of the words Adelaide spoke were true as gold, but unlike this spoiled Lady those lords would defend the kingdom with their blood if necessary. When Adelaide commented to the Queen about Alexander’s fame of wooing every lady, completely ignoring his skills as a fighter, Edward had enough. He stepped right into the face of Lady Adelaide and his face showed all the anger he had aggrevated over Amena’s actions, still his voice was calm and icey, which was always a dangerous sign.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“Mylady, we both may not have the highest opinion of those men down in the arena, but my opinion of your humble self isn’t the best either. Shouldn’t you speak so snotty over the affairs of Lord Alexander, when you had nothing better to do than to take Sir Leon to your bed only hours after you arrived? Shouldn’t you stop warning Queen Ines of all those men trying to woo her and warn her instead that you are the wolf in sheepskin here? Wasn’t it Lady Adelaide who had spoken up loudest, that the King should have taken her, as the best of all Erathians ladies, as the one the most fit to the throne and not some Portuguese princess? And I doubt I have to remember you of your exact words, you see I want to spare you that shame.”</span><br/><br/>Which was kind of nice of Edward, because Adelaide’s words had been ‘childish, foreign slut’. Edward brought his face very close to the young lady and his eyes drilled in hers.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">“You may fool Queen Ines, who knows nothing of you, Mylady. But you can’t fool me or Lady Amena. Watch your tongue, Mylady. Don’t forget that some of the words you are talking here may slip out of this box accidentally.” It was obvious that Edward would take care of those words spreading by himself. “And I wonder how all those nobles will treat you, if they learn how you spoke about them to the Queen. Alexander is not the most understanding. Or take for example your lover of this afternoon. He is in one of the next pairs, are your hands already getting sweaty, Mylady? Because Leon has some history of not treating those very kind who double-crossed him. And I doubt he will misinterpret this situation here completely, when he assumes that you have given up on him…”</span></div>