10:48 am
MOOD: annoyed but getting over it cause it was nothing
MUSIC: Knocked Out (Bleach, Again for the first time)

King Robert rode across the countryside of the land of Hogan, gathering the scattered remnants of his followers, who survived the slaughter of the beachead of the northern shores of Hogan. So they formed a band quietly in the night and plotted a return to his home lands across the wide sea to the north. All this while they lived as vagabonds, robbing and pillaging and then stealing away into the darkness each night, never to be caught by eye or hand of men.

When the time grew to fulfillment, King Robert and his four hundred subjects plundered one last town, the small port town Rorriel which would in later days become the great city Rorreandir. They secured a ship by force, swiftly and suddenly, and King Robert and two of his guards led a team to plunder the market for food for the return journey. In the confusion of the battle between the city's guards and King Robert's men, a young peasant girl Pati was able to pick the king's pocket.

Robert's two faithful guards captured the girl, cast her in bonds into the hold of the ship, and in under an hour, King Robert was returning to his homelands, after two years since his men had landed at Hogan. Turning to the girl, he was ready to execute cruel justice which a lowly pickpocket deserves, when he commanded to girl to face him rather than turn her back, and at that moment her stunning beauty captivated him, and in silence he considered that he could not work his justice on so beautiful a captive.

Quickly apologizing, he released her from her bonds,

and at this point, the story doesnt seem to come together because what in the world would cause the peasant girl to love the king? Why would she end up as Queen Pati? This story is set up all wrong. i mean he plundered her freakin country, and she's being led away like some kind of slave.. and i haven't painted King Robert as that charming of a guy, i mean he rose to power by killing militarily.. maybe i'm missing something. Yeah, that's it, there would have to be some extenuating circumstances involved.

The mill was a lovely place for the little girl to live. It was built comfortably against a great knoll, down from which flowed the most beautiful and friendly waterfall in all the land. Pati played with the animals of the forests and talked often to the waterfall, which of course, talked back. She soon became familiar with all the languages of the forest, speaking in the tongues of birds, beasts, and water. Pati and the miller lived together for 17 years, until she was quite grown up and had blossomed into the fullness of her beauty. The miller was kind to her, and they loved each other very much.

yeah that's it.. screw the love story, i'm not as infinitely talented as to be able to write that kind of nonsensical twist into a story. King Robert will stick with his forte, wars and the heroic deeds, until i come up with a super brilliant idea.