Thread: Behind enemy territory [Meepmeepimmasheep x  Lady Leah]

War. It seemed like in his life growing up within the confines of the castle walls safety, Rainer had heard nothing but tales of bloodshed throughout the region. Yet for the first time in many years, lasting peace looked not as a faint wish, but a promise. In return however, he and he alone, would need to sacrifice the one thing he held dear in this war torn nation. His freedom. His captivity for the freedom of his people. They had told him what they required of him during the meeting of which only the highest of senior members belonging to the kings council even knew existed. They told him how he would be forever known as the man who bought peace between two nations that had been brewing wars for centuries, told him how as the kings youngest son, it was neither his responsibility nor concern to look after the crown or to seek a place within the council, but instead to do whatever he had in his power to enable a union between the two sides. Rainer was a man that would gladly put down his life for his countrys safety and prosperity, but the terms of their so called treaty were preposterous. Never in his life had he felt such rage and embarrassment, they had wanted him to be sent as a treaty, to be wedded to one of the kings daughter. Instead of lifting up his blade and sweating blood over the battlefield for his beloved land, he would be sent over to be wedded, like a fucking princess. He had immediately rejected the proposal, but what good was voicing his displeasure to a room of people who thought of him as nothing but a child. They told him that he would be treated as how someone of his status would, a position of power in their oppositions empire, he would live his life as he had for the past nineteen years, just that it would be on their land, and in their castle. And in seven years, when their daughter would be of age, he would then be married to the woman, but till then, he would be under constant scrutiny of her family. Every single thing he planned to do must be carefully thought out, for if he were to show even the slightest hint of betrayal, he would be executed and war would once again reign over the countries. Having no other say in the manner, he quickly bid his farewells and for the first time in many years, left the safety of the countrys walls. For four days he journeyed, never once threatened by anything more dangerous than a few annoying insects. Had circumstances been different, the trek might had seemed almost idyllic, if not for that fact that the peace around him was merely a facade, the tensed, peaceful moment between two blades before they collide against one another. The late afternoon sun began to sink amongst the treetops, creating contrasting areas of brightness and dark shadow among the trees as he slowly arrived at the edge of the woods. Yet as much as the darkness tried consuming whatever light that remains illuminating through tiny patches of holes in the canopy, it did nothing to hide the flames belonging to the group of man that waited at his journeys end. Being signaled to follow along, there was nothing Rainer could do but to edge his stead forward and get led to meet his awaiting family in laws.