the beasts over the crown

After King George finally finished his supplication to the sun, he leaned his stiff hand against the window's threshold to rise.

He gazed with sad eyes at " the Upper Spear " River , extending as far as the eye could see (which would later be known - because of both the king and the witch - as the River of Gold or the River of vessels). The river lay behind the high city walls, although he had seen higher and more majestic ones when he visited the city of " Manfee ", located beyond the " Osman " Sea from which his wife, the queen, descended.

The river flowed like a giant blue snake, winding through Lord Henry's castle in the east until it reached the 'Blue King' castle and the surrounding city, eventually ending in its mouth in the 'Devil' ocean.

. But the disaster, all the disaster lies in its cursed source, it and most of the main rivers upon which the kingdom depends for agriculture and irrigation, which is located in the Great " Warrior " Mountains - which once stood tall like a giant warrior against the fiercest armies - which found no place to rise lofty other than the lands of the Riverspears kingdom!

As for now, there remained from the giant snake only the tracks of its crawl left on the dry ground.

The messages - coming from the scouts sent by " the hand " - indicate that huge boulders, comparable in size to wagons, were thrown at a distance of half a day's journey or more inside the kingdom of riverspears, to limit the flow of water to the kingdom of king george as a whole and especially to Lord Henry's castle.

Moreover, the king of riverspears, the treacherous old man Everard Bellingham, who is sixty-nine years old, resorted days before launching the attack and imposing the siege to poisoning the wells of the castle through deceit and trickery. And by the time Lord Henry became aware of the matter, the enemy forces were standing at the gates of his castle.

" And the only way now to restore our waters is to dig trenches around the boulders to allow the water to flow once again... But how can we do that while we are unable to defend our fortresses here and repel the enemy's advance? ... How can we dig trenches in the heart of his kingdom and among his men? ... Even from the sky, the rain has held back from us, so we have lived through years of drought ". The king froze in place for a moment when a devilish idea struck him, then he followed: "The cunning fox... Two years specifically when the crops diminished and the livestock starved... So the old man took advantage of these harsh conditions to sow discord and destabilize... And he succeeded in his endeavor, for those who have no reason to be angry became angry... The people became angry !" .

...While the king was immersed in his thoughts... the witch entered !