King Xavier listened and weighed everyone's contribution to the matter at hand. His big weary sky blue eyes scanned everyone seated in the room, taking in their expression, posture and suggestive body languages. He was convinced that there could be spies from his mortal enemy's kingdom lurking in his empire even though he had made several efforts to flush them all out.
But like persistently annoying roaches, a few of these spies were believed to have blended with the citizens of the province.
Nonetheless, King Xavier doubted that King Hassan would be so stupid enough to make a such cowardly but daring move at such a critical time in the empire.
Both kingdoms, though enemies agreed to a temporal truce, after almost three years of bloodshed with no victor or conquered.
But, such a sensitive matter could not be treated lightly.
