Silvertree Chronicles Bk. 01 Ch. 24

I only have to prove the corruption of the elders of those family branches to go after the funds in every single family member account. In exchange for the cooperation in these matters, I will allow 20,000 gold pieces to remain in the accounts of the children and grandchildren of the disowned and 10,000 in the elders here. Something or nothing.

You must decide this before you leave this room. You will be under house arrest until all assets are seized at which point you will be put on the street with the clothes on your back. The money I am offering, or nothing. He looked at Ellirona, "I am going to show the rest of the family just how serious I am about getting your cooperation. When I say 3, I want you to piss yourself. 1, 2, 3!"

Urine started flowing down her leg as everyone watched. "Your family branches will have everything stripped from them except the clothes on their back and if I am feeling kind, 1,000 gold pieces in the bank. To allow them to be able to afford to pay rent until they find a job.

Give her the rags of her shirt so she can clean her smelly cunt up. Now you will all be taken to an interior room that is not your own. Teleportation will be blocked. And magic suppressed in those areas. Servant rooms. You will remain there under guard until all assets have been seized. Father, I want those assets split 80-20 across the 4 non-coup members getting the 20%.

The other 80% will be given to the 6 returning families to oversee. I want you to work on that ruling council that I asked for. I did not tell you. I was going to turn house management over to a council of 9. That will still be the case you just will not be included."

At that point, every family member had been stripped and searched, down to hidden pockets in clothes. "Sergeants, take these two out in the hall, have the house guards find a plain cloak for each of them."

Once those two were out of the room he flipped up and onto the table. He drew his sword. He walked out to the middle. "I will give each of you a chance to save your family branch in this tree."

He slid the sword into the hole from last time. "All you have to do is claim the sword. Succeed or fail, makes no difference, your family branch will have a new elder if you die by your choosing.

Just raise your hand if you wish to kill yourselves to save the rest of your family the embarrassment of being disowned. He gave it a few minutes and none of them raised their hands. He nodded and called the sword and sheathed it. "I should give that chance to each of your eldest children. To kill you to save their family.

Instead, I will let them know of your selfishness to the end and the detriment of your offspring. Now to the remaining members of the soon-to-be council please have a seat back down here skip the seat with the urine but leave my father's seat open. Annette, gather up the belongings taken from the others and bundle them up, please. We will sort them out as potential rewards for our troops."

He looked across the room, "I just brought down over 99% of House Silverbar. I am now cutting and reestablishing branches. We will have a loss of 60% of House Silvertree due to the elders in this room. Father, you know the drill for the 2 who are not here. None of these elders are to be employed by House Silvertree.

The offspring can come on as employees of House Silvertree for the various businesses. The offspring can petition every 10 years to be readmitted to the family. This is on a case-by-case basis. The young have a greater chance than the old.

All re-admittance for the next 100 years is my decision based upon the council's justified recommendations. After that, it requires 6 out of 9 votes to carry. For as long as I am alive, if I am dead no further efforts to rejoin will be accepted or permitted.

Father for the 2 would-be assassins, all magical gear is forfeited to the Gray Blades for distribution to the troops. The other family members' magical gear shall be seized and divided against the 7 council members who need the gear most. I excluded myself and my father's branch.

He walked down the table and flipped off at the feet of Lieutenant Silver Bow, "None of the people in this room are to be allowed to leave until my father clears it. Then they are to be taken to the quarters designated by my father that are shielded. All access to other family members is forbidden until all assets have been seized. My father will assign house guards to each area that needs to be covered.

Again, they can choose mental probing or agree to the monetary settlement I am giving them. That is enough money for each family to build a new business somewhere. Working to build a town I know about the cost of building a business."

Eldar looked at his father, "You have this in hand? You know I did not want this but if I take down another house for doing this then I have to do the same in my own house. Make them sign a release or I will have them subjected to complete mental examination by a psionic. Then divine interrogation by clerics of the Lady of Dreams."

He nodded, "I got this, go deal with your prisoners."

Eldar looked at Lieutenant Silver Bow, "I want the name of every man here this evening in the squads. When gear starts coming in, I want them each to receive something for the effort tonight.

Please follow my father's direction and turn people over to House Guards once they are in their new rooms. Keep the blockers on within the home father. Help my father in his search of the rooms. I will spend some time identifying any gear taken this evening and try to designate things to a class where appropriate. Where is Captain Silver Moon?"

She shrugged, "She went to her house when we arrived in the city."

Eldar nodded and headed out to the hall and left the swamp a little lower than last time.

He looked at the two of them, "If you need a chamber pot please speak up. It will be a long walk to the palace dungeon. Yes, I said walk!"

Eldar looked at the ladies, "Tie a rope to the cuffs and give them to the Royal Guards."

He looked over and saw his new favorite Captain.

He nodded, "Congratulations on your marriage, the Queen told me. I have one who hired an assassin to kill me. The other hired one to go after not just me but my whole family and the King and Queen. The King and Queen had 2 names on that list that were also on my list. The other man will be questioned on possible regicide charges as well. Dungeon no visitors."

The Captain looks at Eldar, "You are getting bossy."

He smiled, "It might have to do with being Sir Eldar Silvertree, I was knighted yesterday."

She nodded, "Will take care of this Sir Silvertree, where are their horses?"

Eldar shook his head, "They are walking and they are naked under those cloaks so it will be easy to do cavity searches. They pissed me off. I gave them a second chance and warned them of the consequences now they are going to face them."

She smirked, "I am glad I listened to you when you gave me my warning. Will take care of this, sir."

Eldar smiled, "She also made both my wives Dames."

She giggled and nodded to both of them, "Dames, have a good evening."

They got back up on their horses and headed back to the Palace.

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Patron Silver Moon walked in to see her daughter in the stable, returning the house horses and getting her favorite horse from the Far East. Its wounds had healed nicely. The Patron dismounted from her horse, "I was called before the Queen, in regards to the new marriage laws. This new 'champion' had the Queen confirm that disowning over marriages will not be allowed and should be reversed.

I now have 40-50 of those to review. I was asked to help 'set the example' as it is my brother's church to the Lady of Dreams who demanded the changes. I was told you are getting married to someone from the Champion's wedding who was told to get married by the goddess. That he took down a spy in the palace single-handedly. That I would likely not approve of them."

Teresana'Via Silver Moon looked over, "You could not disown me now if you wanted to. The ceremony that cleansed the blades had another effect. The blade can only be claimed by my progeny, children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of mine. I was knighted yesterday as well, the second time that has happened. The first was for my work in the Far East for Warlord Tang out there.

I saved a lot of people out there and learned new skills, including several languages. I joined the Gray Blades as a Captain advisor. He wants to leverage my combat knowledge from my years of experience traveling abroad.

He wanted me at that ceremony for two reasons. One to help with it, the other is his Second Apprentice. He wanted me to begin to heal. I am healing, Moon Ray and I both moved on because of you. The elf-blooded daughter of my former lover is Eldar's second apprentice.

He was killed not long ago and she was all alone. He named her after me. I found his will in his house. After his wife died, he set me as a guardian for his daughter. The daughter he named after me. His wife had died 3 years before.

According to the villagers, she killed herself. Her daughter believes she fell and I am not out to shatter her vision of her mother. She felt she could never measure up to me. The woman who left Altrian Moon Ray behind because you had his brother killed.

He regretted ending it but had no way of getting a hold of me as you refused to send a message to me on his behalf. I have his journals. He wrote to me in the last few years of those journals. He called me out by name in the entries, as if he knew I would be the one reading them.

I am going to get married; I am already pregnant. He was at the wedding. I had not seen him in 2 years. His name is Tiger and he will take my family name. He is talented in all forms of martial arts; attacking with or without weapons. His sister Keyno is the gifted archer in his group.

She married the other night to another Elven Captain and carries another champion to the elven gods in her. The Gods are embracing this change to increase our population. I am having Elf-blooded children, mother. Instead of Moon Ray's elven children because you drove me away.

I found my strength to stand up for who I loved because of it. Because I love the man, this human. I sent him ahead with his sister after rescuing them from a brutal Warlord. I told them I would catch up and pointed them toward Elven lands.

I made that Warlord pay for the things he did to his people; Including killing Tiger and Keyno's entire family. Now I know you won't embrace my marriage or my choices. Whatever relationship we have, you are going to just have to accept that I, like you, am stubborn on a lot of things.

You never married for love and drove my father into an early grave. Find someone to love. Once you do, then drive a knife into his heart and you will know how I felt about what you did to Moon Ray. Else, work to accept what you cannot change. The choice is yours, but I hope you choose happiness and love.

You will know where to find me. In Quatarsia, I love that town's name. They will be building an Academy there and I will become an instructor there after I get my Grand Master status in 10 years. So, I can train one of my children in the Blade Singer arts. I carry twins. One is a son who will be a Blade Singer.

You may not believe Eldar is a champion, but here I am. I'm back reunited with 3 people I love dearly in that village and one of those people, I just met. She is a sweet girl, Apprentice Moon Ray. I saw Corellon at the ceremony.

He sent me a private message letting me know how proud he was of me for becoming the gifted Blade Singer I had become. For following the call to come home and catch up with Tiger. He BLESSED my future wedding and told me to let you know.

I have seen the champion in battle and was shocked when he leaped from the back of a charging horse, 30 feet forward, and 25 feet high in the air, and slid his blade through an Ogre Magi's heart by way of his collarbone as he tumbled away. He is a force of nature on the battlefield.

He remembers everything he reads to page and paragraph numbers. He cares so much for our people yet he was shunned by them most of his life! He fights those who work to kill him while protecting those he loves without crushing them.

He is building something special down there. I wish you could see it all as it takes shape. Yes, that was an invitation if you ever decide to come and see me and my family. You can still contact me via crystal as well and continue this relationship as though I am on the other side of the world.

Instead of being 2 days away by horse. An easy teleport once you know the location. I have one now. Eldar has a library, as did Moon Ray. I can get here quickly when needed. You may use that crystal and I might not answer.

I might not respond to you, because I am in battle, in class, or have a passionate lovemaking session going with my future husband. Or I could just be busy spending time with my children and grandchildren. I am not looking for an answer right now.

I want you to think about everything I just told you. Write it down if you want. Know that given everything you have done; I still love you but I also hate those things you did to mess with my life. Then again, I would not be here as the strong-willed elven woman that Queen Goldeagle called me out to be when she knighted me. If I had not taken that journey of broken hearts."

She hugged her mother, mounted up, and left her in the stable on the verge of tears. Teresana though felt like she had healed a lot of old wounds this day by getting it all off her chest. She hoped her mother would find a point of happiness.

Her sword had a telepathic danger sense on it, she now knew as she did not have access to it before. She would be there if any assassin or thugs came, not that Tiger could not handle himself.

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Eldar got back with the wives and looked at the groom, "Would like a bucket of oats and water for each of these brought around to your stables, the wagon can be taken in back now and those horses stabled and fed. Our plans changed with the assassination attempts. We are still trying to piece some things together for the Royal Family."

The groom nodded. "Let us pull the saddles away first to put in the wagon before finally parking it around back. I can store the barding." He waits until they had the horses good and brushed down, and the saddles in the wagon. He looked at T'suras and then back at the groom, "Add an apple to each bucket of oats." The groom nodded.

Annette looked at him, "Why did you not put this item into your bag?"

Eldar sighed as she held the collection of gear he bundled together, "It could damage the bag if another object is connected to another plane. I have to identify it all first."

She nodded, "What happens if it is damaged?"

Eldar looked over at her, "Imagine dropping the contents into a waterfall that fed into an ocean on the other side of the world and trying to get the stuff back. This would be hundreds of times worse."

She nodded, "Got it. Identify first before it goes in the bag."

Eldar nodded, "That is why the miniature chest is not in the bag but in a separate pouch. It should be safe but I want to study that one more to make that determination."

He walked in and saw the Captain of the guard in the palace, "The two prisoners are en route, did the Queen leave us access to the room we used last night? We have prisoners to question over the next couple of days."

The Captain smiled, "She told us to expect you and to place guards in that hall just in case. We also took the liberty of having our cook on standby to bring you up a warm meal, sir."

Eldar smiled, "That would be appreciated along with a few bottles of elven wine, a few water skins, extra towels, a bowl of fruit, and meals for three. I have the detect poison spell already set after the last couple of trips to town."

The Captain chuckled, "I understand, let me take you to your room, your packs are still in place."

Eldar nodded, "Right. We did not think of those in trying to grab them after the chaos I initiated in the throne room."

They got to the room and got out of the armor. He moved the table around. The ladies looked at him and sighed as they came over and sat. They did not have to wait long for the stuff he asked for to arrive. He got everything in place, opened the wine, and cast the detect poison. Everything was fine so they sat down and they all ate. After they were done, he got undressed as did the ladies.

He was rock hard, and he signaled for Annette to come over and suck his cock. She thought she was being cute when she bent over to suck his cock. He signaled Charlemagne to lick her. Charlemagne leaned over and stuck her tongue into Annette's nether-hole. Then she grabbed her hips as she knew what he had planned for Annette tonight.

Annette sucked harder and deeper. Her hips squirmed around. He stood there and watched the scene holding back for as long as he could. Then grab her head and shoved his cock into her throat and shot his seed into her the back of her throat and back out after the first few spurts. He pulled forward so she could taste it. She stood up and looked at him, "I have never had you that deep before in my throat. I had to force myself to stop breathing while you came in my throat."

He smiled, "Get back to work, we got a long night ahead of us." She bent back over and sucked him hard again. He backed away from her. He looked at her, "Now get your blindfold on." She smiled and went and got it. Eldar pulled out several toys, put some lube on the strap-on for Charlemagne, and set out her special add-on device.

He took the new toy and slid it between her legs and popped it inside of her and she moaned. He pulled it out and told her, "Get it attached."

He grabbed one of the fake cocks and lube it up and set it down on a towel on the side of the bed. He started kissing and massaging Annette's tits and then hung his hand to just brush over her pussy as she sucked in the air. He did it again but slid a few fingers into her pussy.

He got them good and wet and slid them into her mouth to suck clean. He rolled her on the side then picked up her right leg. He placed it on his hip and signaled Charlemagne to slide in behind her. He held her leg and told her, "Hold still."

Then Charlemagne slid that fake cock into Annette's nether-hole, Annette gasped as she felt it and realized what was going on. Charlemagne started moaning loudly from the attachment. Once the cock was seated. He slid down and start licking her pussy.

He got Annette worked up. He slid in two fingers and waited for the first orgasm to hit her. It did and she moaned out more deeply than normal. He sucked down on her clit for a second one, she calls out, "Oh Gods you are going to try and make me pass out again. He just massaged faster until the second one hit. She got higher.

Every time she pulled up and away. Charlemagne pulled her back down and stroked Annette's nether-hole back to bring her back. She was in one long continuous moan and she shook. She caught her breath and the banshee was released. She shook but he slid up and slid his cock into her pussy up to the hilt. She moaned loud and long. She hit an even higher octave. One of the wine glasses broke and she passed out.

Eldar rolled her over on top of him with Charlemagne up on top of her. He looked at Charlemagne, "Keep going for now until you cum."

Charlemagne was getting off on Eldar holding her sister up to her to be ass fucked in earnest. Charlemagne screams out, "Fuck this toy is unbelievably good!"

Eldar looked at her, "Keep going until she wakes up or you cum again but go slow. He held her ass cheeks apart so she could get depth. After a few minutes, Charlemagne was about to pop again. Annette woke and started moaning again. Charlemagne picked up speed and came a second time.