Announcement

[royal_obligation]

Edarial makes a list of necessities for a wife. He has Zevros check it over, who promptly rips it up and throws it at him. He is of the opinion that if Edarial doesn't actually want to marry a specific person, he shouldn't, and Zevros will have nothing to do with any of it. Edarial sighs, rewrites it, and keeps it and a copy of it away from his twin in the future.

He makes the announcement to various interested people that he will be looking for a bride. Just saying it makes him feel sick. Edarial manages to keep it together long enough to give a list of the qualities he's looking for before he flees. He says he's busy, no one will look twice at him being curt and disappearing to get work done. So no one comes after him when he hides in his room and locks the door.

Face buried in his pillow, he realizes that there's no way he can be personable to his - whatever they are. Potential brides, suitors - whatever, he doesn't care. He'll hire someone to vet them, so he doesn't have to torture himself dealing with women trying to persuade him to marry them.

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[aestrix]

The first two candidates Nataliem sends Edarial's way are rejected outright for being associated with him. The third gets herself thrown out by getting on Zevros's bad side, and then Nataliem has to start finding other options, because it's not like women that suit Edarial's inane list of necessities are easy to find. Iobel is on his list of candidates. He considers her skepticism and unwillingness to marry the man that'll become king problems, but getting around those will not be as difficult as getting around the prince's pickiness.

He forges a letter from the prince, having already practiced his handwriting years ago, and then finds out where Iobel lives and has the letter sent. In it is a royal order for Iobel to present herself as a marriage candidate at the palace. That should get around her shyness quite nicely.