Blood of BrothersChapter 17 Duties
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Serus rubs his calloused hands into his face, a feeling of surrealness and disbelief running through him like a cold dagger. His father is dead, the late Juliuos Dawnwar, liberator of the humans and father to not just Serus, but the all of his kingdom. Now his responsibilities bore down on his young twenty two year old son Serus Dawnwar.
"My grace, your answer?" the man's voice is apprehensive and careful, nearly everyone in the kingdom knows of the man Serus is, but the kind of king he will be is still under careful scrutiny. Benevolent and firm like his father? A tyrant who sees fit to rule with steel instead of compassion? Or a spineless coward, who can be easily dethroned.
"We will fortify the eastern gates with our army, however, keep a legion here in the capital to ensure order." Serus' answer pleases the burly general, Yulem Tride, a beastly man with skin so thick he has almost no need of the armor he adorns, he is commandeering but kind, orcish blood may run through his veins but not his heart. "Our forces will act on the third day of Ghoul's Greet, the oncoming tide of the Sever Souls will be blunted, rest assured." The general's footsteps clang throughout the great hall as he makes his exit, his troops will go to the great gates barring the rest of the empire from the Great Expanse. Serus' father had created those gates after defeating the Sever Souls and freeing humanity from their cruel oppression. The gates keep the monsters in the Great Expanse, a continent so large it takes up three fourths of the world maps, out. But after the king's death reports of Sever Souls climbing the walls and taking soldiers in chains into the darkness of the night, the monsters that plague humanity are growing restless and once again they must be stopped. Lest humanity is shackled up and forced to the every whim and desires of Sever Souls, Orcs, and Kurlash.
Serus sighs, the stresses bottled up in him flowing out with the deep breath. He turns his head as quiet slight footsteps come from his right, "Hey, you should get some sleep, you've got to look good. You might be meeting your future wife tomorrow." Naya, Serus' sister says as she takes a lock of her brother's hair and pushes it back behind his ear. Her face is soft and heart shaped like her mother's but her eyes are sharp, a piercing quality that only the Dawnwar family seems to possess and her hair falls over her youthful features in a golden cascade of silk so beautiful that her father once declared it a royal treasure, taking a lock from her head and encasing it within their vault. "Well, I'll be sure to look at no one but you tomorrow." Serus says playfully as he stands from his throne. Naya giggles at the seemingly innocuous joke,_ if only she knew, _Serus thinks to himself wryly. "Use half that charm on the ladies tomorrow and they'll be crawling over you in no time." Naya says sarcastically, "Now c'mon, you look ghastly."
"Alright, I'm coming."
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