Fall of the 3 Dutch Kingdoms: 5

Palembang

Diederik van Lynden was feeling a little uneasy as he paced around his room with a troubled expression on his face. 

Ever since the time he got the intel about the Bharatiya Navy attacking Sangiang Island, he had been unable to rest peacefully. Many times, he woke up to nightmares, thinking of assassins from the Bharatiya Empire ending his life and taking over everything he had built. 

Two months ago, when he met up with Reinout and Otto for the first meeting of cooperation between the three kingdoms, apart from the exchange of trade and diplomacy, the major concern was security. There was a lot of discussion about whether the Bharatiya Empire would attack their kingdoms. But in the end, the common conclusion reached by all three parties was that the Bharatiya Empire would not attack them at full force since they could no longer be considered colonizers.