War of the State and the Nobility

        We walked into the grand room with its vaulted ceiling and stone walls on every side, in the center there sat a large world map used for massive scale war planning. The war map contained a few pieces on it as she paced back and forth. She of course was the one who called for the meeting, her name was...

        “Valeriya!” Furry exclaimed as the two women hugged each other.

        “What are you doing here?” I asked wanting to get this over with. Valeriya had a special way of making my skin crawl off. Yet I can’t figure out why.

        “Vwell, Cross, if you are going to be zsat vway I might as vwell get to zse point.” She stated in a thick Russian accent. She began pointing to places on the map and naming them with Operation names.

        “First I vwant you two to choose heads or tails.” She asked holding out a coin, flipping it into the air.

        “Heads!” Furry said...

        “Tails!” I said our voices slurring together as we shouted at the mid air coin simultaneously.

        She caught the coin and slipped it into her pocket. “Good no disagreement, zsen Cross Flame you are to become zse field general of zse Nobles and Furry Sparkle you vwill be zse field general of zse State.”

        “What!?” Furry stated shocked and slightly upset she couldn’t find out if she won the toss or not.

        “Because zhere needs to be a vwar.” She stated flatly.

        “A WAR!” I emphasized grabbing Valeriya by the throat, throwing into the cold stone wall, furious with her arrogant demeanor about this, “We don’t NEED a war, if I remember correctly?”

        “On most... occasions... not,” She stated struggling, and gasping to breath, so I gave an incredibly small amount of room to breath so she could explain.”but I have received notice of several factions zsat could shake our foundation of peace.” She gasped in a raspy voice, and moving free of my grasp, she positioned what appeared to be figurines of Furry and I to their respective places on the map.

        “OK Let me see if this is right you want a war to keep the peace that we have?” Furry clarified.

        “Yes, you are. Vwe need to flush zse zhreat out before it attacks and zse nobles and state need only a nudge to fall into chaos. That’s vwhen zse true enemy will show itself and try to attack.” she explained as she moved pieces around the board.

        “So what is your role in this?” I chimed in.

        “Warmaster, you both report any findings on zse factions and vwhere your armies are and I stage battles zsat will have zse least amount of leverage in zse war to sustain it as long as we need to purge zse enemy.” She smiled at that last comment.

        “But Val we can’t just suggest attacks to prolong the war, we will be demoted or executed as traitors.” Furry warned with concern and a tinge of fear in her voice.

        “True if you vweren’t zse highest rank on each side.” Valeriya said handing each of us a scroll.

        “Inside zhose are zse declarations of war from each side, and your sudden promotions due to combat experience. Now shoo you need to begin preparations, zse war will commence in two days from when you deliver those scrolls. So try to deliver zhem at zse same time” She said shoving us out and returning to her war map.

        Furry and I looked at each other and then our scrolls with uncertainty. “Hey, orders are orders.” Furry said before kissing my cheek and walking off. I caught up to her asking,”Can’t we wait till tomorrow to deliver these,” I asked gesturing to our ‘orders’,”something about this doesn’t fit.”

        “I agree that sounded a bit extreme for finding encroached vermin, we should wait at least a day.” She agreed and headed down to the courtyard from what I could tell while I headed to my chambers for some relaxation and sleep.