Sparring

'clank..clank' sounds of clashing of the swords were coming from the practice grounds. They were none other than Selemon and Edvik who were sparring with each other. Selemon was angry because of Elvis's attitude so he was letting out his ager in this way, that is by exhausting himself so he won't be having enough strength to think about earlier and in the end he won't be angry. This trick was very common among royalties specifically male royalties, so Selemon's actions were not surprising.

Under the shade on a high platform, Surica was sitting While holding Elvis's coat and was looking intently at him. After some time when the fight was just about to end, a soldier came and knelt down. He said with his head down

" Your Highness... Northern peripheral is being closed by Pierre army".

"WHAT?"Elvis gave a sudden reaction. Everyone else just stopped for a second, while staring at the soldier.

" Do you know, that you can be dead for delivering a false report?"said Edvik while placing the sword on the soldier's neck.

"Your majesty... General...I witnessed it with my own eyes.."said the soldier.

"You...."said Edvik while raising his sword to slice the throat of the person in front of him who was claiming that Emperor's best friend is betraying their friendship.

'Swish...' something passed suddenly from the right side of Edvik, it was none other than Selemon who was just standing in a shocked posture earlier. He rushed with a tensed face, behind Edvik also followed him with the messenger soldier. Selemon rode his black horse to the border to examine the conditions by himself, and it was just like what he didn't wanted to. Indeed Pierre army was sealing the way by building a wall in the way.

Selemon reached there and asked"What is going on here? how dare you to create a wall here? Are you tired of living?".

"Greetings your majesty"said the Senior General of Pierre while bowing his head, he continued " Please forgive this servent as I am only following my Lord's order...King Elvis ordered us to close this pathway" with this General avoided Selemon's gaze and ordered the Mason to continue his work. Edvik started quarrelling with the General, countrymen of both the countries started to gather, soon a big commotion started. Peoples were kind of protesting because it was the only way through which they can cross the two kingdoms , since the other paths through the border of both the countries were full of lush green yet dangerous Forest.

Soon the crowd started to grow bigger, and the king himself came to solve the issue.

While Elvis was still in shock, he was sitting under a tree on a rock and kept on looking toward Pierre kingdom. A lot was going in his mind but still he was not expressing any of those thoughts.

Elvis came on a black horse with a group of his subordinates, Elvis was a tall man just like Selemon with brown hairs of waist length and brown eyes, with very beautifully defined facial features, his skin tone was quite lighter because he belonged to a northern country of slightly cold climate. But by winning several states he formed Pierre just like Selemon who was originally a prince of a mid eastern country and expanded his territory to form Dollmaire.

From nature Elvis was not that serious, he was humorous, kind and a very understanding person. There used to be a smile on his face always, but now his face was looking sullen.

He looked at Selemon who was also looking at him and said in a loud voice "The peace treaty is already broken and Pierre will not be be keeping any relation with Dollmaire, not even for any business purpose". With this he ordered to finish the work as soon as possible and went back. Selemon was taken aback by his words, and just like a statue he kept on sitting under that high tree.

Every brick that was being placed to form the wall was just like a needle in his heart and soon wall become four feet tall. After four hours, after doing a lot of self questioning he came back to the castle and directly went into his bedroom and locked himself . While Surica who was following him was shut outside the door, She wanted to ask a lot but looking how he was behaving she stopped herself and retrieved her hand which was just going to knock the door. She asked Edvik the details for the situation on the border, and after knowing it she was also depressed.

After two days finally Selemon came out of his room and joined the dinner with Surica and Lavina. These two days Surica brought him all his meals but he refused them all, due to which she was very worried that she herself was unable to take a bite. Even this time she was on the dining table just to feed Lavina, but to her surprise Selemon came unexpectedly and took the right side of Lavina. With mother on left and Dad on right, what more does a child want. Lavina was happily enjoying the food her mother was feeding her, but she still asked

" Daddy where were you these days? I didn't get to see you..... you didn't play with me...i am very angry....do you know because of you mumma didn't eat anything these days".

Selemon who was just going to take his first bite stopped and looked at Surica in a shocked gaze and noticed that her eyes were teary just like two fragile glasses filled with water up to the brim and can overflow at any time.

Selemon rushed and hugged her from back tightly and kept on apologizing for his rude behaviors. looking at the situation Lavina went out by making an excuse of being full smiling. looking at her, both of her parents also started smiling.

Soon he sat down next to her and grabbed her hands, kissed them and fed her, while she also fed him. He explained all the situation to her with his own perspective regarding it while taking a stroll in the garden, under the white moonlight. After discussing a lot they came to the conclusion that they will accept the new rules set up by Pierre for its border because they themselves were more responsible in causing this. But now they wont surrender their pride for reconciliation, because not that much ,but still a little bit Elvis were also responsible somewhere for taking things these far.