Alexander watched the currently ongoing blistering snowstorm safe from his room in the mansion with a pleased heart.
Because as stated in this report from Remus that was in his hands, the men were able to get most of their water needs from the snow deposited by this storm, about two thirds of it, while the remaining was able to be filled by the water from the newly dug wells.
This meant that Alexander was able to keep his stock of stored water in its entirety intact, while at the same time, the men had unrestricted access to their drinking water, thus raising morale in camp very high.
It was a win- win.
And with this, it seemed Alexander had managed to at least mitigate some of the effects of Lord Parker's strategy, even if he could not outright overcome it.
While his men were busy earning their living as such, Alexander could not unfortunately kick back and enjoy the show from his room.
He had wished that with winter settling in at full force, he would be able to find himself with a lot of free time in his hand, there being little to do other than wait for his reinforcements to arrive.
But much to his chagrin, Alexander found himself burdened with his own type of work.
There were many tasks inside the mansion that needed his attention.
The most pressing of which talks with Lady Miranda.
The topics there involved mainly three things- what to do with the Margraves members in the mansion, what about the reinforcements that Lord Janus promised, and lastly the most important one of all- asking for outside help, be it the Kaiser family, Governor Strauss, or the northern barbarians.
And here, to reveal the bad news first, it seemed that Lady Nanazin was wrong about her judgment of Lady Miranda.
The lady had indeed gone a bit mad.
Or perhaps mad might not be the correct word.
It would be more accurate to say Lady Miranda had become a bit too assertive, following through with whatever she said no matter if it made sense or not.
It was almost like she was trying to overcompensate for her earlier indecisiveness by being too decisive.
At least that was what it seemed like, as despite several days of rest, the names on her list did not decrease, despite Alexander's urgings.
Sure, there were some banal subtractions, such as of some maid who might have looked at her wrong, or one of her distant cousins making a rude comment about her figure, but these people were small fries not even worth a second look in either Alexander's or Lady Miranda's eyes.
Their inclusion or exclusion made absolutely no difference.
The people whose lives did make a difference though received no leniency from Lady Miranda.
Even if she wanted to kill them, she did not need to do it right here, right now, as Alexander pointed out clearly to her many, many times, over and over, asking her to have patience and be more strategic about it.
However, that also meant that over the following days, Alexander would find these talks with Lady Miranda that went nowhere extremely frustrating, to say the least.
One side wanted blood, while the other wanted to wait, and so none of them budged.
And by the end, the only reason he did not flip out on her and started calling her names such as crazy or a lunatic was because he had Lady Nanazin to vent.
Given the season and situation, the Adhanian Queen had little else to do other than spend her time with Alexander, so she could always be there to let the man vent, both physically and mentally.
Lady Nanazin would always be there to lend the man her ear as Alexander would angrily recount all the futile talks he had with Lady Miranda, with Lady Nanazin just sitting them, drinking copious amounts of wine while nodding like chicken at everything he said, "Right!", "Mmmmhh", "Ohh gosh!", "No! How could she?" "She should not have done that", and many such platitudes.
This was the mental venting.
While the physical venting did not really need to be elaborated.
With little more to do than tiresome meetings and waiting, Alexander decided to entertain himself with really the only way the people knew how to in this time period- by being intimate.
And the curvy lady was of course more than happy to comply, spreading her legs whenever and wherever her master wanted.
After Miss Linda's escape, the measures Alexander placed to prevent such repeats were undoubtedly draconian.
Thus it suddenly made the huge place appear very empty, making the duo feel as if they had the whole place all to themselves.
Hence the two quickly made the place their oyster, as Lady Nanazin made sure to service her man in every way she knew how, there to cater to every whims and desire of her man.
Alexander thus found himself swimming in a pool of debauchery as the Adhanian Queen let the man have free reign to all her facilities.
Among all of his he particularly loved to use her mouth whenever he wanted, be it their room, an abandoned part of the corridor, or while they were showering, as Alexander would ask Lady Nanazin anytime anywhere to open her warm cavern and invite his hot, swollen meat in.
And no matter the place, the Queen would readily kneel, spread her legs, and then sometimes even tantalizingly lift her long gown to let Alexander relish the look of her healthy, meaty thighs, and offer a slight glimpse of her underwear, the light, and dark shades working to create a mesmerizing pattern.
She would sometimes even giggle the joke, "If master can guess the color of my underwear, you can even make me walk around the house without it for the whole day."
Before drinking the hot stuff down in one go!
Of course, if Alexander wanted, he could have made Lady Nanazin walk around the house completely naked without any clothes, not just her underwear, and the madly in love Queen would have undoubtedly obeyed.
But that was not the point.
The point of it was to play a fun game.