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True enough. The King’s Ministers and the <span class="mu-i">Signore Delle Opinioni</span> were never commoners, at least not ones without an incredible amount of support from the old families. “Anyways. Bonetto. We have to get you started. I don’t want to just have you be my henchman, but you need to have something under your belt before people will treat you as anything but a nepotism beneficiary, you understand?”
“Of course.” It was an arduous task in the first place to get you back in the country without being stabbed. You had no friends in many noble circles for your deeds as the Black Knight of Gilicia.
“So I have a couple things you can take command of,” Leo said, “I’ll start with the difficult one. The Auratus. Gepte. The Reich withdrew from those territories, and they’re supposed to be ours.”
“Yet the Feallinnese and Halmeggians take exception to that.” The two neighboring countries had occupied portions of land that were supposed to be Vitelia’s, and the King and the government had balked at actually intervening militarily. A decision that was a constant source of grumbling whenever the east was brought up by anybody.
“General De Nuvolere’s real popular for what he did in Paelli. We should take some of that thunder ourselves, only…” Leo crossed his arms and furrowed his brow, “Feallin is keeping tabs on us. Purposely going and messing with them is a bad idea if we want to keep our families safe. And Marcella is Halmeggian. She’d rather we not go provoking her relatives, you know.”
“You had to marry a Halmeggian.” You said, half in hest.
“<span class="mu-i">You</span> had to marry a mosshead,” Leo returned, “There’s plenty of people, mostly your folk, that really don’t think much of that choice. But that’s neither here nor there. They’ll learn t’ love you, but your hands would be awfully tied if you tried to make Auratus ours again.”
That it would be. Though it would undoubtedly give you much in the way of fame if you took the risk. You also had your own private army, that could allow for more subtler actions.
“I take it your other task for me to take up is closer to home.”
“It would start right here,” Leo said, “I would put the Revolutionary Leagues of Larencci under your command, and however it has to be done, bring the whole of the territory under your command.”
You tried not to laugh at that. “You said this was the easier one.”
“It is the easier one,” Leo said, “Either way, we’re playing big. Trying to get an entire region of Vitelia under us. We’re tilting at princes, Bonetto. We either start big or not at all.”
