"What do you say we head over to your kingdom and negotiate?" Rael offered flatly.
"Negotiate?" Theo tilted his head, his brows furrowed. "How are we to negotiate with someone who holds no political authority?"
While they had a point, Rael also had something he was curious about.
"What brought you to the Hollow Kingdom? You mentioned being desperate, so I—"
"Marriage."
"..."
Rael felt as if his life had flashed before his eyes, but thankfully, he wasn't on the receiving end of the marriage. Still...
"Marriage of convenience?"
"Indeed." Theo nodded slowly. "The Kingdom of Aurenthia and the Hollow Kingdom have had a peace treaty for the last 40 years. However, roughly a decade ago, a fight broke out. Because of that fight, our peace treaty is now at a standstill, and at the rate at which everything was going, we were sure the treaty would soon be broken."
"I figured that all out on my own, by the way," Ivan chimed in confidently.
