Treaties|Contrasta

[Kender Bard]

A page knocks on the door to both bedrooms, calling out, "His Highness invites you to breakfast with him."

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There's a few moments of sleepy silence before the sound of a far too chipper in the morning seven year old can be heard telling Flash and Damien that it's morning and it's time to get up. Flash opens the door to his and Damien's room half a minute later. "We're coming," he tells the page. "Just give us a minute." As an after thought, Flash gets a copper coin and presses it into the page's hand. "Thanks for waking us up, kid."

[Kender Bard]

The page looks wide eyed and astonished. Wordlessly, he bobbed his head and hurried off, clutching to his copper coin like it were gold.

Lya rose groggily and changed into a very nice, silky silver dress. "Do you suppose there will be a court or audience?" she asked her husband.

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"This early? I hope not," mutters Shadow as he dresses. "But we'll find out soon enough. Come my dearest, I'd rather not keep you and the little one waiting for breakfast." With a smile, Shadow takes Lya's hand and leads her out of the room and into the hall where Flash, Damien and Ann are waitting. Or in Ann's case, bouncing slightly in restless eagerness.

"Honestly, could you two be anymore love sick?" Damien asks, glancing over his friends and rolling his eyes.

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"We could," Lya comments, cupping Shadow's cheek gently and looking at him fondly. "But I don't think you'd like that." She kisses Shadow then hurries to breakfast as fast as a dignified walk would allow.

Thankfully, it was merely the royal family at breakfast and no one else, save for the servants. "Good morning," Salacia called out. "Please, have a seat and enjoy."

Lya smiled and wasted no words as she dug into breakfast with a fierce appetite.

"I finished the contracts," Sunray announced, pushing his food around with his fork. "After breakfast, would you be willing to go over them with me? There'll be witnesses, mind. Not a whole audience, thankfully, but a couple nosy nobles."

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"Of course," Shadow replies, his tone so relaxed it's impossible to tell he knows what the price of an alliance might be. Flash however is also merely pushing his food around his plate and trying not to look nervous.

[Kender Bard]

Once breakfast had concluded, Sunray sent Twilight away on some errand. Snowflake bid everyone a farewell and left for her duties at the Temple, leaving only the King and Captain of the Guards.

Emerald grinned at them and fell in behind Sunray as he summoned them to a different room, this one more like an office. Already seated there were two aristocratic looking men, who rose for the King and sat when he bade them all to.

Sunray cleared his throat, "The first treaty would be for an exchange of maps and knowledge. We give you some maps to take with you and open access to our history records and you do the same."

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Shadow nods. "For the kingdom, that's easily enough done." Damien looks thoughtful.
"Slightly more difficult for Naurorod, we have a mostly oral history, but I'm sure something can be arranged if you don't care to listen to old men and women telling talkes about the past," he replies with a slight chuckle. Ann giggles.

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Something occurred to Sunray in a moment, and he looked troubled. "Er, wait, I'd forgotten that you have many realms in your land instead of one united, like us." He gnaws on his lip at that. "So will these treaties only apply to your Kingdom and this Naurorod?"

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"We should have brought Locke," mutters Shadow under his breath to Lya.

"For now, yes," Damien replies easily. "Although I suspect the other nations will send word eventually."

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Sunray winced internally at that; lovely, more political dancing. "Very well," he said calmly. "Then I would like to tack on a clause here. Would you ask the other Leaders to send a diplomat? Preferably all at once."

"I will," Lya promises.

"Good," Sunray remarks, handing them each a pen to sign the treaty as he brings out the next one. "Next is a statement that you will not make war on us and we will not make war on you. I have another one in case any of you wished to make a military alliance."

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"So no losing that famous temper of yours, Damien," Shadow taunts his friend lightly.

"This coming from a man who spent fourteen years sulking cause I disagreed with your father?" he counters.

Ann tugs at Lya's hand and whispers loudly, "Why can't boys ever be normal and talk without fighting?"

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Sunray looked a little discomfited. Lya cast both men a stern look. With a mere whisper of power she retained her hissed reprimand to only their ears. "Damien, Shadow, this is an important legal matter. Do not embarrass us in front of Contrasta's nobles."

Sunray saw her mouth move, but no sound coming out. He grew even more distressed and cleared his throat.

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Ann notices Sunray's discomfort and gives him a bright smile. Both Shadow and Damien flush slightly at Lya's scolding while Flash just chuckles and looks over the contract. "I think everyone can agree to this easily enough, don't you think, my lords?" Both Shadow and Damien glance over the contract and nod.

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Sunray smiles at that and nods, adding his signature. He sets the military alliance one slightly to the side, in case one of them should take him up on it. "Next order of business is trade. Do any of you have interests in that?"

"Talen'sul is aplenty with precious metals. And you?" she asked.

Sunray contemplated. "We have... a little of everything. The 'precious metals' as you say, are rather scarce. We're far more abundant in wood, food, and the bounties of the sea."