Chapter three

The ceremony begins with happiness, love songs in the air filled with drum beats, everyone is seated and very ready to enjoy the day. The Princess and her fiancee are smartly dressed to the occasion.

Then Princess Ruth calls the kind maid and gives clear directives on how to serve her father the king. she goes further and explains why she is trusted with the king's food, it's because of her honesty.

Ruth did not know that the maid heard all their plans of killing the king. She accepts to take up the task of serving king Ricardo.

With her good heart jenipher didn't like the idea but she decided in her heart to help her kingdom and to save her king too.

Before the ceremony started the maid sneaked to the king and whispered to the king what her daughter and the fiancee were planning to do. the King did not believe her but accepted to give her the benefit of the doubt.

The marriage ceremony was called to order and the program began, every bit of it went on so well, both the bride and groom danced their all as they had a double tragedy celebration. the marriage and successful death of the king.

speeches from the leaders of the kingdom, from the parents, and lastly from the celebrants.the prince's husband to be thanked the king for trusting him with his daughter, and also for giving him the chance to be in the kingdom.

it came time for visitors to eat, the people were so hungry and thirsty because of the thorough dance during the ceremony, they wanted that food with all their strength. the king too was hungry despite having plans of a trap to prove whether the maid is saying the truth or just having beef with his beloved princess.

Princess took her precious time to serve her fathers claiming to be privileged to do that on her wedding day yet she knew her plans. she then placed the poison in the king's plate full of fish and rice without anybody noticing her actions and gave the food to jenipher to go serve the king.

King Ricardo made sure he came with his pet dog to use as his testimony. so after the king got his food which was given to him by the maid he decided to announce joy.

here came the announcement from the King...on this special day of my daughter's wedding I want to grace the occasion by inviting my son-in-law and my daughter to come and eat with me from the same plate to show a sign of unity and love amongst the people of boltar kingdom.

the congregation was so happy for the king's kindness, they danced with joy in praise of the king, but Princess and her newly wedded husband were perplexed with the king's statement

they were in a dilemma either to go eat with the king or to refuse the offer, this situation placed them between a rock and a hard stone...Nicholas whispered to Ruth "my love we are finished" they agreed not to eat the food and make a lie that due to the overwhelming joy they lacked appetite.

The King was up to his task and insisted that even if they don't want to eat should just taste his food for them to bless their kingdom but still, they declined the offer.

it was a bad scene indeed, King Ricardo got so hungry and started crying with a lot of pain on thinking that what jenipher told him could be true. He was so disgusted at his daughter and the son in laws behavior of refusal to eat with him.

Queen Isabella tried so hard to convince her in law and the daughter to respect the king's request but all were in vain, they refused to listen to their mother and kept their word" no appetite for fish and rice"

This made the king also change his mind and refuse to eat too, He broke the news to the people of the boltar kingdom. He shared with them the news he was given by the maiden jenipher.

the people were stocked in disbelief, the Princess and the in-law pretended not to have any information of what the king was saying..the people also shouted in denial. the mood in the arena changed from joy to anger.

King Ricardo shouted to them to have some order, everyone went quiet and he told them to calm down and see what would happen to his pet dog to judge the two parties, between the newly wedded couple and the maid.

"puppy! puppy!" the king called his pet and gave the food to it.

It loved the king making it eat in a hurry, before a twinkle of an eye the pet dog started vomiting. Running around and barking in pain, it then fainted and collapsed, checking on it. The dog was dead.No one could believe this as it was confirmed that the food had poison and that's why they declined the eating, offer.