months had passed for Queen josoline and King William. Her round belling holding the key to their happyness. “you look even more ravashing every day my love!” he said to her kissing her on the lips softly and touching her belly. she smiled and said, “i have wished for a son and i know it will be one so what would you like to name him?” he laughed “and how my love do you know it will be a boy?” “i just know….so what name will you have for him?” he looked at her lovingly. “i think a name of strength and hope..like Jacob.” “oh- Jacob? that is a horrable name for a prince!” she laughed. he grimmoused. “then what will you name him?” “how about..?” she put her finger to her chin and tapped…william like your name…he is your son after all.” “no- please so many men are named william in this kingdom..there is william of gloster and william of lockslay and william of who cares because that name is boring.” “fine then how about Prince Jacob William Bruce of the Human relm.” she smiled looking at him longingly. ” i think that will do if he is a boring little prince but i plan to train him like a king my love! william is just too simple!” “look you got to pick the first part and your family name is the second, so let me have william or i will call him william when your not looking!” he kissed her lovingly and smiled you know im just jesting you my love.” “as am i, you my king!” she said laughing at him. he knelt down on one knee and said,”my queen now i must go to speek to Sir Lucic, we must talk about the elvens and these orc attacks.” “i dont think you should go William, something doesnt seam right with him.” “my love he has been with us for many years and saved my life on ocation.” “A snake can still bite you if you feed him william.” “true my love but william is no snake, hes just a man and i have owe him too much not to give him my trust.” Josoline looked at him and said, “fine but bring your dagger just in case.” “he kissed her again and said “ill be back by tonight and youll see nothing is to worry about!” she smiled and waved as he rushed out the door, those kind eyes were so welcomming and so strong. she hoped her son would have the same eyes.
Sir William rode with Sir Lucic out and into the sunset. they went to the high hill and talked about the elvens attack on them, were they might come from. Then lucic said something William was not icspecting. “i cant believe you trust me this much!” william was shocked of course i trust you, you have saved me twice.” the elvan laghed in his face…” saved you…but just so that i could kill you myself.” the king heard these words and sir Lucic sliced his blade straight through the kings heart. the king looked at lucic and said, “she was right.” lucic laughed again as the king fell off his horse and lucic slapped the blade on the horses back side and it ran off.
The horse came back but just as Josoline was getting much more worried than before, she was scared she was right and the king might be gone. the horse came into the gates and they saw his back side had been slashed by a large blade. josoline sent all the knights out to find her king and all night they searched into the day…they finally found him decomposing with large flesh wounds form wolves that had gone for the meat. the men carried his body back and a funeral was held as well as flowers were brought by every human to the kings funeral. Every one of his knights were there and Josoline felt a weight on her sholders. She was a widowed queen, how would she raise her son and run a country until her son was old enough to do so himself? they had put him into his wedding garb and left on his wedding band. Josoline war her wedding dress too and but a black veil over her head. Humans from every corner of their world came to morn for the loss of their kind king. Sir Anthony spoke kind words of the king and how great he was to so many people, so much like the Elder Ramulouse that it was ashame he would have to be given back to the earth so soon. Sir Mendal spoke of the kings death as a great loss one the world has never know, but thank the heavens that he has left us a child to show us how even the unhappyness can bring some happyness. and Sir Zuzic said, “though we are a people of much loss now we will have happyness for every elvan that comes to our home will see what we have lost for trusting them and we will kill them with our smiles and our hope that one day they will learn too what it means to love someone!” finally Sir Peter spoke for the queens favor.”we will miss our king but do not forget that we have his queen and she was his love and his life. let us love her how he loved her and let her lead us and teach us how to live in her eyes.” she smiled at Sir Peter, he knew how to make the crowd love again…that had always been his gift as a child. Josoline finally stood and looked out and at her people and said We will miss you King William…go back to the elders and share with them what you have seen and come back to us in our crops, in our rains, and in our love for one another!” she lit the torch and his body was burned into dust flying higher and higher into the sky. Then drink and food was given out to everyone and music could be heard through out the human realm.
Josoline sat in her now alone chair and looked out at the fires blazing in the night sky.it was colder than it had been for a while and her kings knights came up to her. “my queen, we would be honored to teach the boy about his father and how to be a king. we have seen much of how King william was.” josoline just looked out at her people as she said this, “understand me now good knights, Prince Jacob will never know how to fight…he will be taught how to love and the magic of this world, nothing else.” “my Queen are you sure, never has a king been good at just book smarts and had a good life and a good kingdom.” she looked Sir Anthony directly in the eyes and said, “i will not loose my son the way i lost my king!” the knights knodded their heads and backed away as the queen cryed softly to herself.
