Eric

- So what? Eric's face showed no emotion.

- Like what ? ! Do you still ask?

Yes! Do you need something? Servants can not fulfill your errand?

Yes! Yes! I need something!

- So say it. Why are you even trying to scream? For you before this was not. You are ill?

- Why scream ? ! Don't you understand? As soon as we officially married, you practically left me. So - you come to visit, say hello, passing by. Even you spend the night often in this terrible monster, which you call manufactory. Is it possible to sleep with hot pieces of iron more pleasantly than with me?

- Are you jealous of me to the gland? Eric snorted.

- And there's nothing fu

- Honey, you must understand - either the state or the family. Do you like being a princess? Do you want to go to the village again in ragged clothes?

" Family is sacred! "You can not treat her like that! Do not you really love me? "Eric continued to look at her with an unabashed gaze, which did not express any feelings, only raised his eyebrow in puzzlement. - Well, you're a bastard! How do you even wear the earth!

"Like all other people, it's on its surface. "

- Are you kidding me?

- No, I honestly answer your questions.

" Understand, I can not do this anymore. "I feel abandoned. To me it is sick and it is a shame.

- Darling, and no one said that it will be easy. Or did you think that the rulers live in paradise?

" Why not! "I remember well how mercenaries climb into this paradise and organize a blood bath. They do not kill in paradise.

- I am not talking about that.

- And about what?

" Look at Alexei the Angel. "It seems that the emperor is once a mighty empire, and what does he do? Having taken the throne, he began to burn life in his own pleasure. What a finale it ends you, I hope, guess. Am I right?

"He will be overthrown by the Crusaders this year? "

- True, but not only that. The guys will tear his empire into pieces, since they are very greedy. He will lose not only the throne, but also the empire, which his ancestors collected according to the crumbs. And all because instead of engaging in public affairs, he lounges and spends his days in idle entertainment. Do you want me to become like my overlord and start a business in the principality?

"But, Eric, can not you give us a little time to pay attention to me and my son? "

- The expanded manufacture now only just rises on legs, behind it the supervision is necessary, and active. If I miss something now, tomorrow it will come to me either with bad armor or with fragile arcs of arbalests. Do you want my army to be weak at a critical moment and I'm dead?

- What are you talking about ? ! Your army is very strong.

" Do not be silly, I do not have any army yet, those two hundred soldiers are the maximum of a good squad. "In addition to the core of eight or nine hundred perfectly armed soldiers, I need auxiliary parts. And they all need to be well equipped, otherwise the losses will be very impressive. Honey, very difficult times are approaching, when we will have to fight a lot, relying only on our own strength. And the enemy will often not only be a great number, but also strong.

" Where did you get all this from? "Who will attack us?

- Everyone has their little secrets. I can not answer this question. From the east will come a mighty force, which will be very difficult to stop.

- Well, let's assume all this for granted, but I'm not iron. Give us at least an hour a day for me.

- One hour before lunch I will send a courier who will inform you about where I have di

Excellent! Then let's sleep, and that time is later.

Eric somewhat cu

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