King Proven/Understanding Chance

"Understanding Chance" is the fourth episode to the original web series King. Proven. by .:.TellZeal.:. Productions in courtesy of the Sonic Fanon Wikia. It was completed on January 21, 2017.
== Episode Text ==
Effinhaum 4.12.11
"Dad, I'm tired," Etshiro leaned on my shoulder while I walked him to school. "I don't want to go today."
"You're going, Etshiro," I said. "And this time, don't get near Lola until you know she's not contaminated any more."
This morning was a strange day leaving my son and daughter at school after the incident with the early dismissal. I believe that this could have been a set up of the people to purposely search for me or something. Or, it could have been a teacher's excuse to go home early for the break time.
Either way, today I knew that I was going to have to do some work searching for a new occupation and what not, so I got to work. I looked inside the Colonaian Time Scope for the closest of jobs that I could find close to the kingdom regardless of how the people would look at me. I was ready to ensure my presence before the Queen - I mean the Princess - and get what I deserve. Perhaps Klavan was right about trying to marry 'er. After all, I think she needs someone as young as she is by her side to rule alongside her despite all the wars that would rage in the kingdom.
When I looked into the newspaper, all I could find were jobs that were stationary and minor of positions in the kingdom. But, at least they were there. So, I made the meeting's use to meet at Colona's Heart and talk to Espony Noya, the head over the Stationary Assembly for Sanitation of Colona's Heart. The meeting wasn't all that bad, as she was a little flexible with my countenance and blushed often (I'm so glad that I have the looks for that). Therefore, I got the position as "Cleaning Overseer," which is an easy job for me to just stare at other cleaners all day and scrutinize for flaws in their hard-working efforts.
And, after my first day on the job was over the next day, I was already getting close to the kingdom like I was supposed to. Inside, I saw some of the Colonaian Council members who I met at the Banquet before and reunited our ideas and told our own stories. I told Olly Pollin, the council member for disease control, about my endeavors of being in the kingdom.
"Oh, so you're the one that everyone's talking about," he said. "I thought he was going to be some ugly rat who was homeless and sat at the side of the street trying to say that he could get married to the Princess."
"No, no," I chuckled," I'm nothing like that - that's for sure. But, I do believe that I'm somewhat unhonorable to even be near the Prince and Princess just a little bit. Don't you say?"
"Nah. You've got a lot of credibility on you already being a child researcher and all. If you just plan out what you're going to do about the Queen, then you'll get 'er in no time. I've heard that she has a love interest for the Prince, though, so be careful."
"Hey, hey, don't forget that she's not a Queen, Olly. If she has limited power under the Council - wink, wink, hint, hint, nudge, nudge - then she'll have to marry me under the consent of the other government."
"Oh yeah, that reminds me. You know the Council sent you a letter - ?"
"Ah, ah, I know about that. Apparently everyone in the council agreed to it."
"Well, some of us didn't. It was the Secretary's discretion to make that reason that everyone in the council thought this way. But, that's not true. I don't want Colona to have a female in rule."
"Why not?"
"Because, firstly, Princess Tuwark is only fourteen for goodness sakes. Secondly, she doesn't even have a father or brother figure that can take the throne. And have you heard about the female queen of the small tribe in Ovilis?"
"A woman Queen?" I could not recall that to mind at all. For most of the history of my life, this place was only ruled by males.
"Yeah, I think her name was Antium or something like that. Well, what ended up happenening was that she was so despaired of her position ruling all by herself that she married a whole bunch of other men to get power over other minor tribes in the local area of her. She got into war and was assassinated in short time, but that did not despair the men in position. All of her side eleven husbands became individual princes and fought over each other over her dead spirit for her favor. Stupid, right?"
"Yeah, that does sound pretty dumb. So, you think if I get married to Princess Tuwark, I should put a restraint on her marriage desires, even if that means expelling that Prince out of the kingdom?"
"Uh, yeah," he rubbed his nose. "Well, I can't stay here for long. I've gotta get back to law making."
"Alright, fellow. I'll see you later." From there, we parted ways and went our own route.
I did more work in the kingdom, cleaning and such, and I almost ran into the Princess as she was passing by to head to the Mass Library. But, there were some other maiden surrounding her that glared into the Princess' countenance, becoming envious that my eyes were on the Princess and not them. So, they rushed her as quickly as they could and got her to the destination needed. I'm just still surprised that the Princess didn't even bother to talk to me.
So, I did my own measure to peep inside the library and see for myself what she was doing. There she was sitting in her seat with placid thought into the black book that her eyes were set upon as she opened it slowly with one hand and swayed her hair away with the other. The other maiden were giggling as they flushed in the face while I scanned the room.
A hand pounded my shoulder. "Hey, what are you doing in here?" It was the Prince.
I looked back. "Oh my, it is such an honor," I knelt with one knee, "You must be Prince Lawka."
"You're right. What are you doing in here, 'Whillis?'" He emphasized my name.
"I was just looking around. Well, actually I work here now. I'm a Cleaning Overseer in this department of the castle."
"I don't want you looking at the Princess like that. You either speak to her or you don't. Don't stare."
"Oh yes, your Majesty. I'll be going now." I started off.
"And don't marry her," he finished. "Go on, now. No comments."
I stopped, but I didn't turn back around. My eyes rolled over to see just a sliver of the competition of the Prince in my eye. But, I knew I just had to leave immediately, so I did.
And that's where I am tonight. I'll make a resolve to myself in a way that would explain a few things enough for me to get through this pressure. Rule number four: Be pressured, but don't be squeezed. The pressure here is the fact that Prince Lawka is trying to be a little competitive about the Girl, and that is somewhat a little pressuring. Just think - if I had just told him right then that I wanted to get married to her, he would have all options for reason to put me on trial for treason or something ridiculous of the sorts. But, I just accepted it and went on my way.
Now, does this mean that I'm going to truly stop? No. I just have to get close enough to the Girl in the kingdom in secret so that I don't get into any trouble. But, I shouldn't be squeezed of my goal. I can be pressured and understand that there are dangerous boundaries that would be somewhat difficult to cross, but at the same time, I can't surrender to the very fact that there is an issue somewhere. If I surrender, then I'll fail this entire mission. And, I don't really want to do that.
I want to marry the Princess partly because everyone has told me that I have the guts, tenacity, and credibility to marry her. But, the most important reason I want to marry her is because I know that if I get this position, there would be no need for me to try and get my position back as a child researcher. As a matter of fact, I'll even have all the power over the elite researchers. I will be king of the nation. So, that's it. I just have to be slightly careful of what I do, but I need to start taking the stand and confronting her about the situation. Then, hopefully she'll understand my motive of doing this.
She's naive after all, as everyone says. I'll just take their word for it.
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Effinhaum 4.12.13
Let me just tell about my few days of work. As always, all the girls cower to me or whatever and give me what I want, and at the same time, I am able to communicate with them effectively to figure out more about the Princess.
"Oh, uh, I think she's in martial training right now," Eela Noon, a coworker who shares a surname for the name of my own father, blushed and choked as she spoke. "Maybe you can go down there to the central square and talk to her."
"Thank you so much. You've been a great help in my job lately. Keep it up, and maybe I'll give you a promotion to work beside me."
She took that in another way, but that is just fine. This is how a male should get the control of another person for their own means. Make the people believe that they are special for who they are working in the kingdom and such, and then they'll be able to become the best of their own means.
From there in coversing with her, I went to the central square to see the Princess. And, behold, there she was standing there in her long skirt, training her muscles to sit static to the strength of bending onto her own weight. That's a good pose for me for nighttime.
I strolled over. "Hey, Princess. You hear me?"
"Whillis?" She began to wobble in her position and caught her fall. "My, my, what are you doing here? You're causing a lot of trouble in the kingdom."
"I'm here for you, of course."
"Okay, you need to get yourself in order surprising me like that. Don't you know that the council sent a letter about you and treason?"
"I know that." I leaned closer to her. "But true love isn't restricted by the law."
"I-It's not? That doesn't make sense." She looked around and flashed her eyes back to me. "You really need to be careful being here. There's soldiers all around out to protect me and they're under the order of the Council right now."
"You know, not the entirety of the Council believes what was written in the letter. Actually, I kinda believe that the Prince is just jealous enough to write that himself and frame the Council of saying this."
"Whillis, I know that, but you still should be careful being here. It's too dangerous and they might try to put you on trial for talking to me. I know this because I went to a meeting yes - ."
"Shh," I put my finger over her mouth, watching some soldiers in black and gold circumferencing the court. "Let's go this way."
She nodded, and the two of us began to skulk into the opposite paths of the soldiers on the right corner of the court square as the soldiers turned their heads.
"Where is the Princess?" One of them searched.
"Naw, naw, she probably went back to her room. Let's go get 'er," another led the pack to leave.
"Ugh, why do they want you to stay here?" I turned to her in a darkened closet area of all her musty training clothes. "It's pretty boring out here."
"That's just the customs for the ruler in the kingdom. They have to train. Come on, let's get outta here and get to the garden. Surely they won't see us there."
Accordingly, the two of us took our time to get to the garden as soldiers were searching all around. I told the Princess that she had to make up a lie eventually to protect our relationship and explain where she was - or where she wasn't. She was telling me about the strictness of the court in the mornings and the ease of the nights, whereas the Prince has all these rights to roam as he wants with no schedule or whatever. She was also telling me that the charms of the Prince was dying to her, because her days in the Colonaian Reovlutionist Group was better than the times now where the Prince became a hard, unrelaxed individual by and for the law.
"Again, I used to love him," she said. "But, when he started to make laws, it seems as though I was a citizen under it. Well, I mean, I am a citizen under it, but I should have just a little bit more power than that being the Princess and all. All I get is orders, and that's what I do. And the media. There's just nothing else to it."
I opened the garden door. "So, you're saying that you don't feel like a Princess as you should?"
"Yes. I'm not a real Princess, Whillis. That's why everyone wants me to marry Prince Lawka; they want me to lose my power in the throne."
"Lose your power in the throne...but if you married someone else, would you have power to the throne?"
"That's why I want to marry someone else," she stopped beside a large leaf. "I want to marry someone else so that the two of us can share power and rule together. And, with all this ruling, we could become a good alliance to each other."
I stopped, too. "Well, Majesty, there is a little problem with that. Who would make all the executive decisions that would be needed for control in the kingdom?"
"Both of us rulers."
"Us?"
"I mean, me and whoever I marry."
"Oh. Well, if you don't want to marry Prince Lawka, then you can always marry me."
"What do you mean, 'marry' you? I just met you at the banquet and now."
"Well, you're already opening up to me and stuff. And you've been talking this whole time as if you wanted to marry me. At least, you kept saying 'someone else' and all that. I just believe that if you marry Prince Lawka, you won't be happy."
"Okay, I thought you wanted to marry me for another reason?"
"Another reason? Like what?"
"Oh, I don't know, like trying to take the power of position from me and Prince Lawka. I mean, I'm not saying that you take advantage of other people, but that's what I've been hearing from the other maiden about you."
"What other maiden?"
"The maiden that attend to me. Okay, maybe I was just a little speculative about that. I just feel that you being the first person to openly ask this of me and take my thoughts to other places was just a little too strange. I thought you had an ulterior motive or something."
"Well, Princess, if I truly loved you like I say, I would protect you from your own protective soldiers and give you leisure. If there was one thing I would change about the kingdom, that would be getting rid of rumors. There would be no more bashing on you and the kingdom."
"Like the maiden say? What would you do to them?"
"I wouldn't do anything to them but let them out of the kingdom. Blaspheming is unacceptable, after all. And the Colonaian Royal Post is really pushing you, aren't they?"
"I guess so. I just want everything to be right, you know? I just want this all to be right."
Then, in the distance, I heard more stepping in the grass and small mutters.
"They're here," I said. "Okay, I'm just going to leave you here while I take the run for it. Se - ."
She pulled closer to me. "What am I going to say, Whillis?"
"Just say what your thoughts are saying," I began to take my leave. "If you want to co-rule with another person, you need to be able to think on your own." I left.
And now that I think about writing this, I gave her exactly what she wanted, and that was for her to be able to have say in power and such, too. Just think in this way - if a king had to leave for important matters, the queen would have to be able to have power and make decisions, too. The queens on Reyonis Platura don't do this. As a matter of fact, most of them just sit there helplessly and listen to their deceptive maiden "friends" and see the world that way. The queens can't even take part in political matters. They're only an icon for familial expectation. And the children, too. All of the family should take part in the ruling instead of being helpless.
The very moment I said that to her, I slipped out and made it out safely without anyone seeing me (at least that I know of). I went right back home and came to write this entry, because it was the most important day in my life. Yes, it was kinda a short-lived matter of moments with the Princess, but at least now I know I'm making enough progress to get where I need to be with her.
And this makes up for another rule: Understand the target. If one does not understand how to listen to the other person, let alone not understand how to communicate, then there are is a breaking line between the two that would cause the chances to snap. It is as a pipeline with two places, where one side is the plant that delivers fresh vavasa to other unfortunate places, and of course the other side is the unfortunate place(s) receipient for the vavasa. If the pipeline is not connected, how can the necessities be delivered?
That's right; it can't. So, there is the best of importance in what I do for Princess Penelope from here on, and that is being able to understand not only her and her desires, but for me to also understand myself and be able to know my level of bounds on the level of willingness I would take for her.
But, then, I still wonder, maybe she's not that naive after all. Maybe she understands my ulterior motive despite me telling her what I didn't believe about myself. That's the point. If we both understand each other then there is the understanding that there will be problems later on in the relationship.
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