The Elven Imperium wrote:
the servant return the message to Akihiro. He smiled and nodded to Hilde. His nod was an answer to her ideas later. The prince hated all the ceremony he would have to endure until he could touch her and speak with Hilde.
Celanor nodded at the king's words. "Well this be a first for the Steel Elves, They are a more conservative branch of Elf. Almost as conservative as my people." Celanor spoke the truth, but he was smart to use the conservative instead of Elf supremacist. Celanor didn't want to ruin the mood of the party with political and social realities. The only reason that the Teno agree to the marriage was to seal and alliance. And the to indulge in his son youthful fancies. Celanor was quite sure the Teno was thinking that all he had to do was wait till a hundred year had pass. Then they could get there son a proper Elven wife. Any children produce by the marriage would be declare ineligible for the throne any way. It was a harsh reality, but that was the case of this Elf tribe. Humans where a lesser race. They live short lives and where destructive to nature. It was a value shared by his own people he though with some sorrow when he looked at Eli. Celanor would never tell the king the truth.
Amara held Viola hand. "So you think your family will give us any trouble here?" She was surprised there was no priest or Leman noble swarming all over them.
Hilde shifted a bit in her seat, she was truly impatient now. She want to thank the Prince personally and not trough a messenger.
Thankfully the bear was vanishing on rapid pace but not soon enough for her...
The kings face hardened. " You don't need to put me into cushions. I'm far to long into the diplomat business for it and I'm well aware that the only reason this marriage is manageable for the Elves is because the Crownprince is true in love so he wouldn't accept anyone else for around 100 years, also we have something the Teno wants and this is the cheapest way to get it. Don't take us as a fool prince, I know exactly what the Sun Elves, the Steel Elves and to an extinct the Grey Elves and the Drow thinks about us and we will prove to them soon enough that they make a capital error should this be necessary. Of course should she mention that to the Sha Coronel I never said that.
I appreciate that you try to save the good mood in the wedding but we had the same problems during the last months and we will get accustomed to it within the next decades and so will the elves or they would be greater fools then I thought. So don't think you need to put us into cushions. We will help your Empire the best we can but not when we are threaded like little children who are not ready for the truth.
I have nothing against you or elves in general so let's drop this topic for the rest of the wedding yes ?" He waited for a reaction, hoping that he didn't make a mistake right now...
Viola laughed. " Oh don't worry, they were punished for what they did the last time and we are now under the protection from the crown and from the protocol. Even my family will not try anything here, not in public anyways." However she could discover the hateful looks of her family in the distance...