It's been fifteen days since Prince Theron had left for the war, and Esther had been praying for his safety every moment from the time they parted. Though she was working in the royal library, all her attention was on the most recent news from the western border where Prince Theron was deployed.
Once in a while, especially whenever she went to meet the Queen, she would hear something like how the military campaign seemed favourable and how Prince Theron was leading an army of his own on the battlefield. They had directly engaged with the enemy forces three times, and had managed to give a tough fight to the enemy despite being outnumbered. Although it would seem like the war would go on for a long time, the good news was at least the army of Megaris had prevented the enemies from acquiring more territories from the kingdom.
However, Esther was exasperated.
'It has been a few weeks, why is he not writing me a letter?'
