Chapter 59 Rocheveron 1

Chapter 59 Rocheveron 1
The doors were gradually shut behind them, muffling the partying sounds of moans and orgy noises. The woman who had introduced herself as Lynorr, Queen of Rocheveron stood before them, giving her best “stay calm and everything will be alright” kind of smile. And although they could guess that she was in her middle age, she was still much too young to be married to that… man. The drunk and orgy party excited the king of Rocheveron. Of all the welcomes Ryder had had to face and deal with, this was the most unexpected, and to think that this was the kingdom disturbing his border at Eldham.
He had gone to meet with the King Duras Krinn of Rocheveron, accompanied only by the queen not too long ago while Dimian stayed with Iris, Xanth, and Lyra behind the door and away from the banquet hall. He was more than displeased and he did not try at all to hide it when the drunk king had tried to make him drink the wine from his goblet in his merry, Ryder had pushed aside the cup in anger and disgust, causing the people around that had seen what he had done to gasp, but the king just laughed out and requested for another cup to be brought.
The fact that the king had been so shameless as to be seated totally and completely naked on the throne of Rocheveron made him want to dethrone the clown immediately. He looked at the queen who had an uncomfortably calm appearance and that same calm smile that was beginning to irritate Ryder and he frowned at her, partly wondering what she must have seen in him that would have made her agree to marry… he looked back at the man they called king… this.
“He will welcome me when he is in his right senses.” He told the queen and turned away from the man who was still calling him out rather loudly to come “join in the fun and merriment”.
“Your people have been taken to the rooms prepared for them in the castle.” The queen told him after they had stepped out of the hall. He nodded in response and she smiled and continued. “And your soldiers will be well taken care of.”
“I should thank you for your hospitality and for having us as such short notice, queen of Rocheveron.” He said just for the sake of sounding polite, but he still could not hide the irritation in his voice.
“Please,” She chuckled. “Call me Lynorr, My Lord. Queen of Rocheveron makes me sound older than I am.”
“Well, are you not?”
She was leading him through the verandas alongside the side of the castle, the sun was still low in the sky as it was just morning and it shone heavily on this side so Ryder knew that they were on the east side of the castle.
Lynorr chuckled at his words but still maintained her queenly composure. “I am only forty-nine years old, My Lord. That is hardly old.”
Well yes, that was hardly old, in fact, that was very young and considered to still be the age of a child but only if you were an Axeris or Khione or any of the other non-humans that lived for a very long time. Lynorr of Rocheveron was not, she and the rest of her subjects were humans and forty-nine was middle-aged.
“Hardly old but married to an unfit and much older person who claims the throne of Rocheveron.”
“My husband can be very…” She paused a bit, searching for the right words to use. “Carefree and wild when he feels the need to be merry.”
He glanced over his shoulder at her and scoffed. “Carefree and wild should not be made to lead a kingdom, and to think that it was such a man who had dared to cause me trouble at Eldham.”
Her shoes clicked on the stone tiles as she walked a bit faster to keep up with Ryder’s pace, he walked like he knew exactly where he was going, but then it was a rather long and straight veranda so… “The king had not orchestrated the attack and disturbance that had happened at the Eldham border.” She defended and that caused Ryder to slow down and turn to look at her.
“Oh?”
She smiled and looked away from him, her hands placed above the other in front of her. “Commander Dimian means well for Rocheveron and he wants to expand the territory for the glory of it.”