Pursuit
THE PEACE BETWEEN the Six Duchies and the Mountain Kingdom was
relatively new at the time of freee sex King Regal's freee sex reign. For decades, the Mountain
Kingdom had controlled all trade through the passes freee sex with as tight a grip as
the Six Duchies had on all trade on the Cold and Buck rivers. Trade and
passage between the two regions had been capriciously managed by both
freee sex powers, to the detriment of both. But during the reign of King Shrewd,
mutually beneficial trade agreements were worked out between King-in-
Waiting Chivalry of the freee sex Six Duchies and freee sex Prince Rurisk of the Mountains. The
peace and prosperity of this arrangement was secured further when, over a
decade later, the freee sex Mountain princess Kettricken became the bride of King-in-
Waiting Verity. Upon the untimely death of her older brother, Rurisk, on
the very eve of her wedding, Kettricken became the sole heir to the
Mountain crown. Thus it appeared for a freee sex time that the Six Duchies and the
Mountain
Kingdom might share a monarch and eventually become freee sex one land.
Circumstances put all such hope to ruin, freee sex however. The Six Duchies were
threatened from without by the Raiders, and torn within by the bickering of
princes. King Shrewd was freee sex murdered, King-in-Waiting Verity disappeared while
on a quest, and when Prince Regal claimed the throne for freee sex his
own, his
hatred for Kettricken freee sex was such that she felt obliged to flee to
her native
Mountains for the sake of her unborn child. Self-proclaimed "King" Regal
saw this somehow as a reneging on a promised surrender of territory. His
initial endeavors to move troops into the Mountain freee sex Kingdom, ostensibly as
"guards" for trading caravans, freee sex were repulsed by the Mountain folk. His
freee sex protestations and threats prompted freee sex the freee sex closing of the Mountain borders to
Six Duchies trade. Thwarted, he embarked on a vigorous campaign of
discrediting freee sex Queen Kettricken and