>>5578723>>5578768Your choice would have been epic, but better skip the part about throwing rocks like a peasant.
>>5578773>>5578824Of course, any hero deserves some rest.
>>5578924>>5579062>>5579469When you told about feasts you decided to tell about king Louis VI the fat ! He has been alive more than 150 years before you but you knew familial legends about him and it would probably amuse the good people.
-Feasts in France ? Yes we feast a lot, there is no feast without roasted pork, poultry, swans served with sugared almonds, dear pies, cervil tarts. And we like rulers who eat well. We had a king once, Louis VI the fat.
The count seemed interested.
-The fat ? How could he be called the fat ?
-We called him the fat, or the pugnacious. He put order in the realm, brought the royal power for the first time under the Loire and burned Montferrand. Never the southern men had seen a king act so boldly and they followed him against the Normans. But the greatest act that he did was eating.
It seemed to amuse some people so you continued, the spiced wine helping you find your words.
-You see good lords and ladies, when two vassals were quarrelling. The king told them to come to his castle and invited them to eat. It was more than a century ago and the table manners were not as civilised as today, we were not cutting the meat of the ladies around us or cleaning our fingers in small cups of water. No... You should imagine a fat king on his throne, eating like four normal men and dishes, entire boars, hundreds of deer cooked with the priciest spices brought by Venetian merchants, entire tankards of Burgundian wines. And the king looked at them and ate, he did not even say a word, we could only hear his mouth crunching the bones of some pheasant. They waited and waited for him to tell something, but he said nothing, he simply looked at them eating in one day what their lordships produced in a year. Hahaha ! And they understood that if they continued to quarrel he would spend all this money not on tons of meat, rare spices and extravagant dessert but on chainmail and swords to equip so much men at arms that they will simply walk into their castles and rase them to the ground. He did this to the robber barons of Ile de France and took the dungeon of Monthléry by storm ! That was a good king.
After seeing him the poor lords only had to go back to their pitiful castles and eat eggs, vegetables and maybe some boar that they had the chance to catch during a happy day hahahaha !
Your enthusiastic rant was appreciated by the count who laughed but you heard something. It was lady Takable who emitted a cry of pain. You asked her.
-Rose ? Is everything alright ?
Everyone looked at her and she smiled saying.
-Y... Yes yes Charles... Everything is alright.
