Tragic Time

It was a sad day in the Kingdom of Silvetia.

Prince Landis woke to the cries and screams of his mother, Queen Azhar. Leaping from bed, he raced through the upper floor of the castle until he came to his father’s bedchamber. His mother was kneeling by King Fergus’s bed, weeping uncontrolably. The king was not moving.

The somber news was spread through the kingdom. His Royal Highness, King Fergus Gynfor, First King and Founder of Silvetia, had passed away at the age of 77.

Within days, Prince Landis was crowned the new king of Silvetia and his wife, Mihai, became the new queen as well.

It was a hard time for Landis. His father had seemed so healthy and Landis had not expected the full weight of the kingdom to fall on him so suddenly. Things were not very easy for the new king. His wife became pregnant with their second child, his mother was greaving terribly over the death of his father, and he had his own grief to deal with.

Within the year, Azhar Gynfor, the first queen of Silvetia died. There were many who said that the Queen Mother had died of a broken heart. She had been just weeks shy of her 69th birthday.

For King Landis, it felt as if the only bright point of that time came with the birth of his second daughter, Princess Heather.

The Gynfor family valiently pressed forward and Landis proved to be just as wize, kind, and just as his father. He ruled the kingdom well and spent much time with his children, the princesses Bethalia and Heather. Those were precious times to King Landis.

He did not know that those days would soon become even darker.