And so it was that the Court Room and backroom politicking began.
Out of the public eye King Aeyric the First sat on his bed
the door to his private chambers locked and began reading the
various reports and requests and pleadings that
lay in a stack beside him on the bed.
There was the issue of the fate of the actual assassin who had
pulled the trigger
on the fateful dawn morning.
Although most of his advisors
figured Issac had done the deed
so far the weapon itself
the Cloud Hammer hadn't been located and the only evidence
for it
was the platinum ball that the surgeon that extracted from King Druul's upper neck
in those desperate three hours to save his life
after the giant
Leviathon Squamus aeyrie
otherwise known as a giant air dragon
had returned to the Sky Castle with the
mortally wounded King Druul.
Some attached notes from the advisors said such a round
could have been fired
by various other weapons manufactured in the
Cloud Plane
such as the
Southern Boa Bolt
and of course the choice of assassination weapon
was going to influence
foreign affairs for decades
to come.
To some extent King Aeyric the First
wished Issac had simply escaped to another
plane,or "vanished"
as ultimately the new King was
going to have to decide
on execution,a life term ,parole
or the "Kings Grace"
The mere dragons and their much bigger relatives the
leviathonus squamous aeyrie
were also now jockeying for position.
Slar's transformation request to be involuntarily tf'd
into a mere dragon lay in that
stack of papers,but the
leviathonus squamous aeyrie tribal chiefs had put
in a request that
Slar be transformed into a
female leviathonus squamous aeyrie
Partly because of his connection to the
prisoner Marry,whose connection to that giant air dragon King Druul
had been riding on
but also because secret medical records showed that Slar's once infertile human mother
had been 'quickened'
with the blood from a slain
female leviathonus squamous aeyrie.
On the surface it was a
"eye for a eye a tooth for a tooth"
request but
King Aeyric the First could sense
the giant air dragon tribal chiefs
wanted to make a transformed
"Slarrina" of royal descent.
A Queen
And there was Ilvir.
Damningly the soldiers
who had arrested Ivir in a Globe Theatre
had found
round from a Southern Boa Bolt in his
jacket pocket,much like the round that
had fatally wounded
King Druul.
Naturally the mere dragons had put
in a request for clemency
for Ilvir
and wanted to make him a thane (a slave)
to the new mere dragon tribal chief.
"Tut tut tut" shook
King Aeyric the Firsts head
as he considered the headache that
King Druul's death
had dumped
on his feathered back.