And even though she phrased that it was odd for Jade to meet Silja, it was odd that a woman like her was here to show care to a human princess who didn't have much standing at all.
"Competition is one thing when we compete. But right now I'm just here to meet her as a friend," Jade replied.
"Friends? That's new. Looks like you both ladies hit it off quite soon," Priscilla lifted her eyebrows.
"That's right," Jade smiled more widely.
Silja who was sitting on the side looked at both the women. She could tell from their exchange of words that both didn't go with each other quite well.
For Silja, she didn't know both of them quite well but to her, Jade looked more genuine than Priscilla.
But she didn't want to choose any side before she knew them more clearly. The competition was going to be quite long thus she had quite a bit of time in the north to find out about everyone in detail.
And even though Jade didn't look evil that didn't mean that Silja was believing in her.
What one thing she had clear in her mind was that she couldn't trust anyone here.
Even though she was grown up in a country that has no internal conflict and an overall peaceful and secure atmosphere, she was still a princess and from childhood, she has learnt her lessons about how the royal families work and how messy and dangerous they can be.
There was no hurry to know who is who and what are their real intentions. While both the women were glaring at each other with smiling faces Silja sneered internally.
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On the other corner of the castle, the nobleman has all gathered together for a drink.
King Zachary was sitting at the main seat with his three sons by his side.
Dragons were one of the oldest creatures who were walking on the land for thousands of years.
Many Dragon rulers have come and gone over the years
The Regalhelm family was one of those who was second to the pure-blooded dragon family.
The Grego family was one of the pure-blooded while Regalhelms we're turned half-blooded.
Both ruling on the two different Kingdoms of the land.
When the Grago family perished Regalhelm took the reign of their kingdom and united all the dragons under one ruler.
That was about a century ago when the father of King Zachary was alive and the king.
"Good morning your highness," the grand duke of the Northcrest just entered the room and greeted the king. He was an old man with a slightly plump stomach and small height. With a brighter than the sun smile, the man walked forward and took the seat two seats away from the king.
"Grand duke Marcus, welcome," king Zachary greeted the man before he took his seat.
Many Nobel men kept coming one by and the maids served the drinks and snacks.
Everything started to come to the king and kept raising a toast to him and kept praising him.
King Zachary was used to it as a king.
While he was swimming in the ocean of fake praises happily, all three princes decided to take a silent corner, away from the old ministers.
"I must say sire Marcus must be the saddest person right now," Zivan being his usual self commented. He was sitting beside Donovan. Garrett who was also sitting with them raised his eyebrows.
"Why is that?" He asked.
"Because he's only daughter is a widow and this couldn't get the chance to marry my brother, what a great of a loss," Zivan tched.
"If he knew he wouldn't have married her in the first place," Zivan joked.
He was right in a way though.
Mostly every man at this moment wanted to marry their daughters to the eldest prince so they can become the next queen and brought great benefits to their maternal family.
And Grand Duke who was leaching on the power all these years must be too depressed to not getting the chance to get the more benefits.
"Well, only if he knows about the secret meetings between his daughter and our prince," Gar laughed out loud and suddenly felt a burning gaze directed towards himself.
His laughter instantly stopped. One glance from Don was enough to shut him up.
"I think instead of my squire you are trying to become gossiper huh? Keeping eyes on who im meeting and what is im doing?" Don narrowed his eyes.
"No no, your highness, I was just.. just…" Gar couldn't complete his sentence.
"Im sorry your highness," he bowed his head.
And Zivan laughed out loud.
"Don't threaten poor Gar brother," Zivan said.
"But what he said isn't wrong, because if lord Marcus finds out about your little secret he will surely try to make his daughter your wife by any cost," Zivan said. And he wasn't wrong. Grand duke was definitely that kind of a person.
"If every woman's father whom brother has slept with started to come to our door for marriage, I think we will be out of rooms in the castle," Zivan joked and started to laugh hard.
Don pursed his lips.
While Gar tried not to laugh and Sam shook his head.
They were sitting in one of the corners so no one can hear them. Both the prince apart from Zivan were hard to get along so no one even tried to join their circle.
Don has enough of sitting there and he was done with his part of showing face so he stood up and walked to his father to take permission to take leave.
"Father,"
"Don, sit here with me first before leaving," before Don could say anything king Zachary asked him to sit and Don complied without much heart.
Soon the lord of Icecrain, Joshua walked to the king.
"Lord Joshua," King Zachary exclaimed.
"Your highness," Joshua bowed his head.
"I was looking forward to meeting you. Thank you for inviting me and my sister to the capital and also giving her a chance to join the ceremony," the man said politely.
"Of course I have to. How can we miss the exceptional woman like lady Olivia," Zach pointed at the seat near him and offered Joshua to sit there.
"I'm grateful that you find her worthy of being the wife of the first prince, your highness," Joshua was all smiling. While speaking he looked at the Don who was in his own world looking somewhere else without paying attention to him at all.
"And you lord Joshua, I can see that you are also doing a very great job handling the Lordship of the Icecrain," Zachary didn't forget to praise the young man also.
"The policy of building new houses for all the farmers of the border was very thoughtful and converting barren land into fertilising was an amazing idea," Zachary was all praise for the young man.
And Joshua also didn't back of to praise the king.
"It's all because of your support and faith in the plan I made. Without the monetary help from the royal treasury, we wouldn't have been able to execute the plan. People of Icecrain are grateful of you my king," Joshua said and bowed his head.
Joshua was the most youngest of the lord in all northern countries under the Regalhelm reign.
His father who was the previous lord of the Icecrain died about three years ago and as eldest heir, Joshua took his place and become the lord.
With the support of his twin sister, Olivia both of them turned the dry and poor state of Icecrain to stand on their own feet.
While also gaining a good place and recognition by the king and all the nobles of the north.
"I must say the idea was very risky and if not for the Eldest prince convincing me I wouldn't have taken the risk. But it turned out very fruitful and that all matters now," Zachary looked at his eldest son and patted Donovan's back.
Joshua slightly narrowed his eyes but his smile widened.
"Of course I must thank the eldest prince for his help," he said and finally gained Donovan's attention.
"Well reminding of the idea. It was decided that after one year of the plan implementation Icecrain should start paying tax to the royal treasury with the original amount of their debt," Donovan looked at the man and said while swirling the liquid in his glass.
Hearing his words Joshua's smile fell.
"You are write prince Donovan but even though the idea regarding farming land turned out very great. But still, the farmers and people are trying to meet their regular ends of needs. Burdening them with tax at this moment will not be a wise idea," Joshua tried to be as polite as possible.
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