The long wait before the immense foreign vessel that they had ominously renamed as the Black Fortune had finally weighed its anchor and set sail along with the large Argantean fleet had felt almost unbearable to the Prince as he remained hidden in the cargo compartment among the numerous salted fish and dried beans.
He knew that his mother was most likely going to suffer greatly for this inexcusable misconduct of his, but if Ghroghl was certain about anything at this tender young age of his, it was the fact that he couldn’t afford to miss this crucial expedition overseas, or he would end up regretting it for the rest of his living days.
Even though he worried deeply about the Queen’s already fragile sanity, as he had been a close witness of her slow mental withering throughout the past,
