Important Meeting

It's not long after you left Lexie's room that you were stopped by two Syndicate warriors who were requesting your presence. They didn't seem very friendly at all either, quite stern actually.

"Darien, you have to come with us." one orders "Please don't cause any trouble."

"What's this about?" you ask

"The King has requested your presence. Just a brief meeting."

You shake your head, thinking about the King and how little respect you actually have for him. But you do need to honor him so without any fuss you stand side by side the two warriors and make your way towards the castle.

It isn't long before you are once more guided into the castle, down through some rooms, and into the same rectangular room with many white marble pillars extending high into the ceiling. The same grey marble floors with large pathways of flowing water all around the room. A few golden statues sitting on wooden tables with metal trim. Plenty of chalice's sitting around those wooden tables as well as two Sicilian warriors standing next to a large wooden door in the distance. Many different paintings and artifacts covered the wall and a few giant skulls of sabre tooth tigers just mounted up, some extremely large with fangs well over a foot or two long. "Huh...back here." you think.

"Have a seat here, Darien, the King will be here shortly." The two warriors tell you to sit down as they turn around and exit the way you just walked in.

It feels like you are waiting around for quite sometime even though it was probably only five minutes or so. Eventually the far wooden door gets opened up and the same old King you saw before starts to hobble his way into the room towards the table. He's escorted by two guards, thankfully no Hawk though as he's most likely on his scouting mission. One guard immediately pulls the chair opposite you out so the King has a place to sit, the other immediately goes to the side, where some chalice's are sitting and pours two chalice's full of dark red wine.

The king coughs hard, almost gasping for air as he looks over at the guard who is now bringing him the chalice of wine. The instant he gets a hold of it, he immediately brings it to his lips and takes a heavy drink from it. The guard sets the other chalice down by your side, but you're in no mood to drink right now, not typical of you, but you have plenty to do today and don't want to get burdened down with alcohol so early.

The King sets his chalice down before he lifts his head up once more, looking at you, not saying a word, the stare in his eyes, almost non-existent. After a few moments of silence you finally speak "You needed to see me?"

He clears his throat briefly, taking one more drink from his chalice "Yes, Darien. I have some issues I need to speak with you about..."