Chapter 104 Section 104 approves of her plan

Tell her to come and talk to me about this, I want to know more of the information she has gathered.Verity's mind quivered with excitement, and it made me feel uneasy. "I think you should discuss your views with the Crown Prince," I suggested dutifully. She was silent for a while.When she spoke again, her tone was very low, as if she was only speaking for me. "I don't think so. He'll think it's just another stupid idea of ​​mine, and after a while will start looking at the map on the wall, or listening to me while tidying up the desk until I finally finish talking Nod and smile at me and ask me to leave. It will happen again." Her voice sounded husky as she uttered the last word, and she brushed back the hair from her face, rubbed her eyes, and turned to look again. Looking at the sea outside the window, I feel the same alienation as when I was in Verity.

she cried? I couldn't be annoyed at Verity for hiding my surprise at his reaction. bring her to me.Come now, fast! "My queen?" "Wait a minute." Kettricken looked away from me, turned her face away and pretended to scratch her nose, but I knew she was actually wiping away tears. "Kettricken?" I boldly tried to bring back a friendship that had been dormant for months. "We're going to talk to him about this idea now. Go now and let me stay with you." She spoke hesitantly and didn't look back at me. "You don't think it's silly?"

I remind myself not to lie. "I think it's gotten to the point where it's time to think about all possible sources of assistance." I said it and believed it.Didn't Chade and the Fool also hint, no, but plead for the idea?Perhaps Verity and I were shortsighted. She took a shaky breath. "Then, let's go! But... please wait outside my room, I will show him some scrolls, it won't take too long." Then she raised her voice and said to Patience: "Mrs. Patience, can you help me tie up these plants? I have to go to other things." "Of course, my queen. I will be glad to oblige."

We left the garden, and I followed her to her room, where I waited a long time outside the door.When she reappears, her little maid, Rosemary, follows her and insists on helping with the scroll.Kettricken washed the dirt off her hands and changed into a gown and a little perfume, her hair combed and the jewels Verity had given her on her engagement.When I looked at her, she also smiled at me discreetly. "My queen, you really dazzle me!" I boldly said. "Your mouth is so sweet! Like Regal." She complimented me, then quickened her pace in the hallway, a blush warming her cheeks.

She went to such lengths to dress up just to see me? She goes to such lengths to dress up to...attract you.How can a man who understands men so well understand women so well? Maybe he didn't have time to understand their expressions. I tightly sealed my inner thoughts and followed the queen to quicken my pace.When we came to Verity's study, Charin was about to leave, and his hands were covered with laundry. It seemed a strange sight, but we didn't understand it until we were allowed in.Verity was wearing a pale blue linen shirt, and the room smelled of lavender and cedar, reminding me of the scent of a wardrobe.His hair and beard were neatly trimmed, and I knew his hair could only stay that way for a few minutes.When Kettricken timidly curtseyed to her husband, I also saw Verity whom I had not seen for months.The whole summer of skill transmission once again exhausted his energy, and I saw that the delicate shirt on his body was loosely covering his shoulders, his smooth hair became grayer, and the corners of his eyes and mouth also appeared. Noticed fine lines.

do i look so bad Not for her, I remind him. When Verity took her by the hand and seated her on a bench beside the fire, she looked at him with a desire as strong as Verity's Skill drive, and her fingers closed on his. hand, and I look away as he raises hers to kiss.Perhaps there was something to be said of Verity's Skill senses, for Kettricken's senses hit me as violently as my crewmates' zeal in battle. I felt a thrill of surprise from Verity, and then: Barrier yourself!He ordered me so bluntly that I was momentarily alone in my own mind.I stood for a moment, dazed by his sudden departure.He really doesn't understand, I thought so, and I was glad that this thought didn't flow out.

"My lord, I would like to ask you to take some time here... to hear my thoughts," Kettricken said softly, searching his face with her eyes. "Of course." Verity agreed, then looked up at me. "Fitz Junqi, join us?" "As you wish, my lord." I sat down on the chair opposite the fireplace, and Rosemary came and stood beside me with scrolls full of them, which I suspected the Fool might have stolen from my room. .As Kettricken spoke to Verity, she took up the scrolls one by one to illustrate her point; and without exception, these scrolls included, as well as the Old Spirits, the Kingdom of the Mountains. "You may remember that King Wisdom was the first nobleman from the Six Principalities to come to our territory... to the Kingdom of the Mountains, and he did not wage war against us, so our history has recorded things about him in detail. And These manuscripts, copied from scrolls of his day, record his deeds and journeys to the Kingdom of the Mountains, and also allude to the ancient spirits." She unfolded the last scroll, and Verity and I bowed in amazement. look around.This is a map. Although it has faded due to age and is not neatly copied, it can still be seen that it is a map of the mountain kingdom, with many passages and trails marked on it, and some dotted lines extending beyond the border.

"One of the trails, the one marked here, must be the way to the Oldings. For I know the trails of the mountains, and these are not trade routes, nor lead to any villages I know, nor Connected to some of the trails I know now. These are older roads and trails, and if they weren't the ones that King Wise walked, how are they marked on the map?" "Is it so simple?" Verity stood up quickly, brought a shelf of candles to illuminate the map, smoothed the parchment carefully with her hands, and then leaned closer. "If this green area represents Rain Fields, there are a number of marked trails that lead there. But none of the trails end in any sign, so how do we know which one?" I objected .

"Perhaps they all lead to the Elderlings," Kettricken went on, "otherwise why are they all concentrated in the same area?" "No!" Verity straightened up. "There are at least two trails where something is marked at the end, and there might be something there. The bloody ink is faded, but I can still tell there's something there, and I want to find out what it is. " Even Kettricken was surprised by the enthusiasm in his tone.I was shocked, too; I had expected him to listen politely to her end, but instead he wholeheartedly approved of her plan.