Adhemar had already been notified by his former messenger of what his brother had been doing when the news of the raid was delivered, he had been sparring with the guard...? That lunatic! A King had to worry about policies and civil affairs, how the bloody heavens was his brother supposed to do that when he was at risk of being injured or using too much energy?! It was a great honor to be made Adhemar's proxy regent king and rule over the kingdom, and this wasn't the first time the old timer wished he hadn't given such a man that kind of power. If Adhemar hadn't thought that only royal blood could govern over the land and that Luthier was far too wimpish and young to rule, he would have sent off his lunatic brother to go off on one of his skirmishes again or whatever he usually spent his time doing.

That brother of his needed some kind of discipline, but Adhemar was in no shape to give it out. Being confined to the four corners of his probable deathbed, his words just weren't taken as seriously or threatening anymore and it wrecked at Adhemar's pride and dignity. Lots of healers had come to examine the poor King, only to have either all have a different kind of diagnosis, or just not understand what was ailing him at all. And because of this strange sense of fatigue and coughing up blood, Adhemar had given up sitting at the throne all day, much to his dislike. The man was given secondhand news on the kingdom at large and he had no one to make sure his sons stayed in line... except for [i]Adrian.[/i] If the ludicrously large man hadn't had so many uses, Adhemar may have sent his brother off to join their sister years ago. But perhaps he would have come back anyway when the witch died.

There was a crisis at hand, as always. Adhemar had heard plenty of cases about how thugs originating from his kingdom would plunder and pillage the border villages of Lutaires. At first, the King had, for good reason, expected their Queen to retaliate with war, but all was very [i]quiet.[/i] One could only assume the outlandish country was too weak to start some kind of conflict with the great Kingdom of Hiertania and Adhemar continued to not press the issue of apprehending the thugs, letting them run wild and seeing how the outlandish creatures would react. It was kind of fun to imagine the Queen weeping and shuddering from the loss of life and supplies, but also shuddering in fear of invoking. His. Wrath.

But Tiadani thugs coming into Lutaires from Hiertania would just not do. It was obvious that the men thought they could pass off as Hiertanians and try not to get into conflict with Lutaires while still keeping a neutral relationship with them. This quite angered the King as he made servants prop him up so he could lean against a towering pile of pillows to look better than he really was. Actually having to lay flat and entertain guests was far too humiliating to him. Adhemar expected his bothersome brother to come in at any minute and after their true reason for discussion, he could somehow work the conversation around to getting him to stop with his fighting tomfoolery.

The loud sound of wood and metal cracking itself against stone pierced through the room and Adhemar started to shudder with rage. Also, the look in his brother's eyes made the King itch to call upon his best assassins to torture and kill his own closest blood relation. 

[color=662d91]"After our main discussion, I will be calling on Galeran to see a change in schedule as a form of discipline, you are not to disobey our conclusion,"[/color] Adhemar spoke between clench teeth that sounded awful in how they grinded together. He straightened his slouch before going into a fit of coughs, one of the maids in the room went to help him before Adhemar finally caught his breath. [color=662d91]"I wish to speak to you about the recent pillage and slaughter of a Lutairian village. While the thugs that were to blame for this incident appeared to move and look like Hiertanians, my men reported that they were Tiandani in origin. What is your take on the matter?"[/color]

[@Sarcelle Renard]