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Bella and Alan sat upon the wall of the palace, from their placement they could see perfectly through a window and at the princess. Alan tapping one of his katanas frowned, how easy it would be to kill her now, but no, he couldn't start with royalty for fear of activating some ancient curse.

The princess moved and now Bella frowned before disappearing. Alan didn't blink but in less time then most people could blink he disappeared as well.

Back at their "safe house" the twins sat facing each other, each with a glass of expensive red wine in their hand.
Bella started "You will join the suiters, I will make sure you can. Once in you will charm her, as hard a task as that might be for you, and while doing this you will kill or turn the other suiters. I will handle the invasion preparation, I will see if I can get the bitch's sick in the head sister to hear logic and join us."

Alan for his part just nodded, it was hopeless for a fighter like him to argue with someone like his sister. A mage with Hells rune of knowledge.

When the suiters start to arrive Alan watches on from the roof of a nearby building before hopping down and joining behind one of them.

It so turns out that Bella had sent a letter a week before stating that Alan would be there as a suitor, although it wasn't Alan, but Lord Hunce of the Outlanders, a small band of mages and warriors who were looking for a country to call home, on a whole not much was known about them.