- The Prouds 232
Most of the members of the delegation frowned
when they heard that.
After that, everybody headed to the largest hall in
the palace.
The king asked, “Your visit means that we have
forgotten what happened between us. Isn’t that right?”
“Of course, My Lord,” confirmed Leader
Hammond. “We have started a new day and those days are
gone forever.”
“I would like to hear what your brother Jarvis thinks
of this,” said the king.
He wanted to confirm to everybody that peace had
been achieved completely, by stressing that the main
opponent to peace, Jarvis, had agreed to it.
Hammond, along with everybody else, looked at
Jarvis, who said in a calm slightly angry voice, “When you
are in a delegation, you follow the opinion of the head of
said delegation.”
Jarvis wanted to send a hidden message to the king
saying that he had come unwillingly.
The king joked, “I have learned that you are a tough
fighter, but I did not know that you are eloquent as well.”
The king, along with everybody else in the hall,
laughed, except Jarvis, most of the Prouds, and the
wounded prince.
Jarvis did not like the king’s joke. He felt that, as
time went by with him treating the king and his
companions with courtesy, he was drowning deeper in a