Theodore was sleeping in his bed, he feels someone touching him, he slowly grabs his knife, and jumps at them. He ends up on the floor above Seraphine. She had the knife at her neck. "A knife in bed?" Theodore nods, he removes the knife and sits back in his bed. "It's an army strategy, you do not need to sleep like a normal person, I have been half asleep since I got here. It's not safe for me to sleep here…"
He places the knife beside him. He looked at Seraphine, she was wearing a black night dress, "At least you can have sleep." Theodore pats the bed. "My bed is better, come sleep in it. I can't sleep anyway." She gets up and moves to the other side of the bed, she leans on the bed and covers herself. Theodore grabs his phone and calls Rinehart. "Good evening…" Rinehart is more asleep than awake.
"Theo? Are you ok? It's like 2 in the morning?" Theodore, sighs acknowledging that he has no more than 3 hours of sleep. "I can't sleep, I never felt this, but I am afraid, Roland." A tear tries to burst out of the eye, but the eyes are dry. "What's happening? Do you need me to come, I call Ghost and we are at your position."
Theodore tries to catch his breath. "I am afraid of my life… Don't come, I don't want any of you to get hurt because of me."
"What is going on Theodore?" Theodore ends the call. Seraphine watched him. "Why not let them help?" "Go to sleep. You know I can't" Seraphine looks at him, she gets closer to him. "If you don't sleep I don't sleep." Rinehart calls Theodore. "You never called me by my first name, so you tell me what's going on or I need to cancel my free week?"
Theodore sighs, "Have fun with you daughter man, you're old, I took 2 years away from you already." Rinehart interrupts him "HOLD YOUR HORSES! Why are you so god damn depressing? I am coming to the castle." Rinehart ends the call.
"Guess your friends are always by your side, even when you don't want them to."
Theodore grins. "I wish they were not."
Theodore gets up and walks towards the wardrobe where he dressed by himself in his formal attire. He grabs the sheath belt and puts it around himself with ease. He did this numerous times, alone, he looks in the mirror, and somewhat sees himself more terrorized than ever. He comes out of the wardrobe and looks at Seraphine already prepared for war, wearing her leather armor with metal shoulder armor on it.
"Throw me my knife! It's under the pillow." She grabs the knife, it feels somewhat heavy in her hand, she realizes this knife was also made out of black dusker. Seraphine gets up from the bed and moves towards Theodore. "How do you use black dusker weapons with ease?" Theodore grabs the knife and places it underneath his belt in a special pocket easy to reach.
"My weapon choice ain't your troubles." From outside the castle, shouts are herd, the voice is very familiar to Theodore. "Who is our brother!" "Theodore!" "WHO IS OUR KING!" "Theodore!" "Who will we aid?" "Theodore!" Theodore walks out of his room and looks to the front of the castle. His men came to aid him. "Who saved us when no one wanted?" "Theodore!" Seraphine looks at him. "Let's meet them downstairs."
Outside Rinehart was encouraging the army. Ghost came near him and ask: "What happened to Theodore?" Rinehart shrugs. "He called me, man looked messed up, something bad happened." He looks towards the people. "If Theodore doesn't come out, we will decimate the city until we find him."
Those words were applauded by Theodore exiting the castle. "It is not gonna happen" Rinehart and the others look at Theodore, he looked pale, weak, and he looked like he didn't get any sleep since they captured the capital. He looked demolished. Rinehart rushed to him and looked him directly into his eyes. "What's going on?"
"I can't sleep, I am afraid of death my friend, I wasn't afraid of death before now. A lot of people want my head." His legs give up and he is falling, Rinehart catches him, the soldiers get near them. "He said someone wants to kill him?" "Is our lord ok?" "Is he dead?" They looked worried. "It's a long story, I didn't eat in two days, sleep barely had any and drinking water, we don't talk about that.
"We need to make our lord ok, bring the freshest food and water, we are gonna guard him and protect him until we solve the problem!" "SIR!" They all said, rushing to make food and bring pure water. "You're safe with us Theodore, after you eat and drink, we can solve the issue at hand." Theodore smiles, regretting not asking them for help sooner.