Chapter 6: 10:

Idoia's POV

I opened the door leading to Lady Moorde's
private chambers. Every Lord of Valencia had a private chamber in the palace
where they could rest in between gatherings.

Most issues that require the noble court
usually take anything between a couple of days to a couple of months to
resolve. I've never seen a case been resolved in an afternoon but I would be
lying if I said this was the first time I've seen Lady Moorde upset after the
proceeding of the noble court.

Being a Lady certainly has its downsides,
despite being the first female Lord of Valencia, she's still looked down or
ignored sometimes but I will admit this is the first time I've seen get this
mad.

She walked back and forth across the
bedroom muttering to herself probably unaware of my presence.

“Lady Moorde?”

“What!” she screamed back as she hurled a
jug at me. I effortlessly caught the jug with my right hand before placing it
in on the stool just beside the door.

“You seem stressed, Lady Moorde? Perhaps I
could get you some tea?”

“Idoia, If I wanted tea don’t you think I
would have asked the guard who called you to get me tea?” she yelled.

“My apologies Lady Moorde, I only…”

“Leave it be for now” she said as she
arranged her gown before taking a seat on a resting bed made from soft red
kruttle feathers. She used her hand to massage her temple and gave me angry
look.

……

“Were you followed?” she asked as she
poured herself some tea I had just brewed from the jug she had previously
thrown at me

“No, My Lady”

“And you’re sure we are not being listened
to?”

“Yes, my Lady Moorde, I have spiders on
the lookout for oncoming personnel and they have their orders to deal with
them, discretely”

Spiders, that’s Lady Moorde call us, the
network of spies she set up in the palace to keep an eye on the royal family
and the on goings of the things that transpired in the palace.

“You’re no fool so I'm pretty sure you are
aware of why I am in such a state”

“I take it that the proceedings of the
court did not go as you had wished for?”

“No, they did not”

“But I thought you had no interest in
today’s court proceedings” I responded

“I didn’t, that’s why even when that
foolish Lord Caspian accused me falsely, I kept my cool”

“What would you have me do, my Lady?”

“Lord Caspian comes later. There are more
pressing matters at hand” she said as she pointed to the table where I had just
placed the Jug.

I noticed a pile of documents underneath
the Jug, I pulled them from underneath the Jug and began reading its contents.

There was a lot of information on the
documents, mostly irrelevant but not all irrelevant.

“Well?” Lady Moorde asked me after a few
minutes of me browsing the contents.

“The man in question, Alaric was accused of
treason for publicly announcing that he will be king, he was taken by the royal
guards…”

“I didn’t ask you to spit back the report
to me, I asked for your opinion”

I took a deep breath as I recalled all the
information that I had just read before exhaling.

“Something doesn’t add up” I spoke out as
soon I was done reflecting.

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“Go on” she said as she adjusted herself on
the seat.

“He claims not to have any last name so it
wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that he's orphaned commoner but he has received
some degree of education but they are no records of him receiving such
education which would suggest that a Lord educated him illegally…”

“You’re beginning to sound Like Lord
Caspian” she said cutting me off “are you going to accuse me as well?”

“Nothing so crude, my Lady. If he had been
indeed been educated illegally, what Lord would have sat back and let their
dirty laundry be aired in public?”

“You think he's outsider? It would explain
why there are no official records of his education and why no Lord took any pre-emptive
measures to deal with him”

I nodded my head to show my affirmation.

“While that is a theory that is worth
looking into, that isn't the reason I called you here”, “What do you think the
verdict of the case should have been?”

“Simple” I responded almost immediately
“There was only one outcome, his execution”

Lady Moorde began to giggle why using her
hand to cover her mouth as she continued to laugh.

“That’s what I thought too…” she paused as
she stopped laughing “Do you want to know what happened in the end?”

I nodded my head.

“In a month's time, that commoner Alaric
will be able to compete for the title of royal advisor of Valencia, have you
heard anything so ridiculous Idoia?”

The news shocked me to my bones.

“What?” I stuttered to myself. “How would
that even be possible, my Lady?”

“Within a month’s time if Alaric is able to
pass all three trials, he will be deemed an aristocrat enabling him to eligible
to contest for the title of royal advisor”

“I’m sorry my Lady, but I am unfamiliar
with this rite?”

“Its ancient rite of Valencia, long
forgotten but never removed”, “Only a hand few of nobles and the royal family
know about it and that’s why your idea of him being an outsider while
intriguing simply isn’t true”

“You believe him to be a pawn in some
noble’s plan?” I asked quickly catching on to what Lady Moorde was insinuating.

“Or Royal? But we’ll never find out if we
stay here and chat all day now will we, Idoia?”

“This mission will have two objectives” she
began as she placed her tea cup beside her “One is to find out what happened in
that royal court and the other is to find out who the mastermind is”

“You believe him to be a pawn?” I asked a
bit more disappointed than I had hoped.

“But of course, he is but a pawn in
another’s game but as it stands is our only lead” she says as she takes a sip
of her tea.

“I’ll assign a spider right away, my Lady”

“You will do no such thing” she replied
quickly in a stern voice as she dropped her cup as took a huge stride towards
me until we were face to face. “This is an important mission, Idoia”, “And I
trust no one else to do it than you, unless you cannot”.

I stared at her blankly but only for a
brief moment, silence can sometimes be taken for an answer.

“I can, my Lady”

“Oh, that’s wonderful” she said with a
smile on her face before turning around to return to her chair “For a moment
there, I thought I was going to have to get rid of my most skilled spider, what
a shame that would been”

What a Shame
Indeed

“The aristocracy trials will end in a
month, you have until then to figure out who the mastermind is, contact me on
any progress you make only by kruttle, now get out”.

 

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