Soon enough they heard a high-pitched voice from the other room.
"What kind of bad luck is this? I don't understand how that pleb of a monarch returned safely from his northern barbarians and is now the top dog in the entire kingdom."
"Shh. Lower your volume, if someone hears your crass words, you will create more troubles for your father and everybody else as well."
Another boy seemed to be coaxing the first one.
"Pah! Do you think I am afraid of him? All he knows is to give idiotic edicts left, right and centre. What was that about sending in our genealogy records and the other one about the slaves? Is he that free to mind all these matters?"
At this point, another voice piped up, "We all know that you are just grumbling because that edict about the slaves made you lose your chance to have some fun with that daughter of one of your servants."
