Snippet #2564087

Rebecca hated the morning. It meant the start of a day and with it the awakening of everything. All she could hope for was that there would be clouds to cover the sun, at least. She did like walking her normal route outside the castle every day but she just never took well to the activity with the rays shining down upon her.

The morning feast was primarily consisting of a few animals her hunters had managed to catch wondering her forest. There were few animals that wondered through her woods aside from predators due to the lack of leaves or grass. Since the woods were mostly of trees and soil forsaken of nutrients hunters would often have to go as far as the edge of Orlpar forest to successfully capture food. Of course minding to not cross the boarder.

Rebecca was on the way back to her chambers when she sensed something foreign invade her lands. She not only had eyes from her guardsmen and people but she also had a few pets that were throughout the woods that gave her sight her land. Whatever the invader was it possessed little to no threat. Rebecca quickly walked to her room and was just in time to see a red cardinal perch on her window sill.

Rebecca immediately recognized the bird as a royal carrier and approached it. She knew the bird wouldn't fly off for it was on a mission. There was a letter on it's saddle and Rebecca quickly snatched the bird from the sill. She gently squeezed it and it's head being between her index and middle finger gave it little room to struggle. Rebecca smiled at the bird struggling and then it disappeared when she felt the letter in her grasp as well. The Queen took the letter and glared at the cardinal. She spoke, her voice dripping with venom.

"You are a lucky bird. I am not the type of person to kill the messenger.

Rebecca walked to the window and opened her hand. The bird quickly flew off leaving the queen with the letter. She opened it and read through the letter carefully. The royal carrier gave Rebecca an idea of who the letter came from and the family crest only confirmed her suspicion. She read the letter over a couple of times to fully understand what its message was. She then folded the letter back and thought.

The fighting surely wasn't getting anywhere. It was different than facing other threats because her people's magic didn't work on the Elves and the Elves magic didn't work on the Drow. This required much change of strategy that just resorted, primarily, to hand to hand combat.

"Tirihdil!" Rebecca called out and within moments her royal guard was at her door. "I need you to tell everyone that I'm issuing a momentary cease of action against the Elves." Tirihdil blinked. He didn't know why the Queen had a sudden change of plans but he knew she would explain. "It seems that the Queen of the Elves grows tired of the fighting as have I." Rebecca held out the letter to her guardsman and he took it. "Have my advisors look over the letter and tell them to write a reply agreeing to meet with the Queen of Felia."

"What if it's a trap?"

"This is why I need my advisors. It is us that do not have the advantageous ground. We are meeting on the Felia Queen's terms. This is war so I do not know what she intends. Even though we are royalty I wouldn't put it past the enemy to resort to lure tactics. No matter how low it would be to set up a peaceful assembly with the intentions to assassinate the opposing head. After the advisors have written the letter send it to me so that I may look it over and send it off." Tirihdil bowed and left.

It was too long until Rebecca's guardsman returned with the letter. He handed it to her and she quickly read it over.

'Greetings Ufarian,

I agree with your concern about our people's number dwindling due to the ongoing war. There is little to gain, if anything at all, at this point of the war. The battling is exhausting our people and supplies. I have called for a cease in action against your kingdom and any of your people. I hope you will do the same. Since you have made the initial plans to meet I will leave it to you when we should meet. Hopefully, this meeting will bare positive results that can aim towards our kingdoms rebuilding themselves.

Signed,
Rebecca, Queen of Xana

Like in the letter Rebecca received, she sealed the letter with her family crest. Her own courier was already waiting on the window sill. The bird was a crow with the top of it's wings being red. This made it stand out from the rest and with Rebecca's power she could see it through its mission.

"Make haste, little one." With that the bird flew off heading for the Felia castle. Rebecca felt uncomfortable. She wasn't used to waiting on someone else. She had mixed feelings about the meeting. Then a thought came to her head. Tirihdil was still standing at her door from giving her the letter.

"Tirihdil.

Yes, my lady.

"I want you to bring our best archers to the this meeting. If anything happens that I don't agree with then I'll give a signal for them to kill the Queen. But remember to only do it on my say so, unless I'm dead. Rebecca turned back towards her window as her Royal Guard left to relay her message. She smiled. It was good to regain some control of the situation.