Given the Margraves were getting ready to sally out, it was only natural for Lord Bernard to demand that Lord Parker follow him out of the city.
Because with them gone and no other force to defend Caira, only god knew what the Heeats could do.
Capture the Margraves family and take them hostage?
Massacre the whole city in revenge?
Loot and plunder everything and then leave?
Everything was possible.
The world would have been their oyster.
While hearing this ultimatum and understanding the mean things he was being suspected of, Lord Parker seethed with unbridled rage and anger,
"You dare plot like this? Who cares if a few whores died? When did they start caring about those cock sucking hussies?
He roared at the city folk before turning to shout at their puppet masters, "Is this how the Margraves treats its savior? We came here to help save you from destruction. And this is how you repay us?"
What Lord Parker was alluding to here was indeed correct.
In normal times the people of Caira would have hardly bothered themselves with such a thing.
Sadly, even the slaughter of close to a dozen women was really nothing to bat an eye about in this day and age.
However this time, it was different.
The people were already riled up and possessed the covert support of the Margrave's troops.
Many of the gangs even received instigating 'scripts' from their learned patrons with poems that disparaged Lord Parker and the cowardly Heeat soldiers, calling them to be 'only man enough to kill women and children'.
People would chant these updated lyrics while protesting along the streets and although they were orderly till now, everyone knew it was only a matter of time before things turned violent.
In these ancient times, the two words- protest and riots were nearly always interchangeable.
This put a timer on Lord Parker's stay on the city, as Lord Bernard flatly declared that they would have to meet Alexander within the week least the city turns into a fiery inferior.
"The situation in the city is turning bad by the day. We need to move as soon as possible Lord Parker. If large scale riots do break out and the enemy senses it to launch a coordinated attack on the walls, they might very well take the city. We cannot let that happen."
Lord Bernard had a facade of great concern as he revealed his concerns about such an accident.
Lord Parker's eyes however only burned with even more rage hearing this 'story', roaring in his heart,
'Bullshit! Without you scum protecting these rioters how can this be happening? Just have your men step down! I will have the city under control before sundown.'
Lord Parker wished with all his might to dye the streets of Caira with blood and viscera.
However as much as the man wished, he could not utter these words without 'evidence'.
This was the main reason the northern wall was built by the family, to stop such raids.
And Miss Linda thought this would be the same case now.
She assumed that natives were probably lured in by the conflict between Alexander and Lord Parker, and sensing the family's weakness, decided to fish in troubled waters.
But she was confident the moment they sensed danger, they would quickly retreat, happy with the mountain of loot they had already collected.
Miss Linda did not even dare imagine that the natives would dare to have any designs for her city.
And there were three good reasons behind her thinking this way.
One was simply hubris, pure and simple.
She believed the natives had been already beaten to a pulp by her family and whatever stragglers remained could no longer possess any true threat to her.
Sure they could be annoying and make life inconvenient for the border folks. But in front of the true might of her family, they were like mosquitoes.
Constantly buzzing around and making one very irritated, but the insect would hardly be able to drain all the blood and kill the body.
The second reason was that even if the natives took her city, it would not be the end for them.
It would only be the beginning.
There was a secret tacit understanding among all the nobles in the entire island that the natives could never be allowed to take any land. And this included even the Strauss family as well as frightening Kaizer ducal family behind them.
These behemoths were yet to act because things had not become so dire but if they did... well, unlike the crippled Margraves, they were still at the peak of their conditions.
So Miss Linda was confident the natives would never be able to hold onto the city even if by some miracle they managed to take it.
Rather, when the time came, they would be surrounded and slaughtered to the last man.
And this certainty made her arrive nicely at her last reason- the native's greed.
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Having read their history, Miss Linda knew of these men's nature and was confident that the natives perfectly knew their predicament.
Which was why upon given a comparable match, she thought they would choose to run with their loot rather than risk losing it all in a fight they really had no chance of winning.
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