Have to push back update one day, for the sake of schoolwork · 1:42am Apr 5th, 2016
Sorry everyone. Really close to finished, but I only have a bit more time tonight of productive writing and there's something I absolutely must finish for school, so Equestria was Merely a Setback's chapter will be tomorrow.
Here is an excerpt for you though. An important scene for one of our side characters who just stepped back into the story! Hope you enjoy!
Later that night, as Reuenthal and Mitter’meyer were organizing their forces in a nearby town, it was found that one of their soldiers had stolen and pillaged against the exact orders of their King. Given the quantity of what they stole and the direct orders given to not engage in such activities, military doctrine called for their capital punishment.
Reuenthal had his entire force lined up behind him as he stared down the offender, who had been tied to a post in the town square. The man struggled in his bonds as his half-Elf superior with mismatched eyes stared him down and prepared to enact the punishment personally rather than through a proxy.
“Today we captured a base, and tomorrow we’re going to go start a war to steal a nation! Why is it that a Prince can steal and I can’t? How is it any different for him to steal a country and me to steal some gold and treasure!?”
Reuenthal gripped his pistol tightly as the insubordinate soldier continued to yell.
“How is he any better than me!?”
Enraged that the man would dare compare himself to their prince after committing a crime for the sake of greed, Reuenthal lifted his gun up to point at the man dozens of yards away.
“Then why don’t you take over the nation!”
The gunshot echoed and left a silence in its wake despite how many were standing there vigilantly, though what was said by Reuenthal caught the troubled man off guard.
Why don’t you take over the nation...
If power and talent was what determined what was right and wrong…
Reuenthal shook his head. No. Down that path lay a dark road that he would not entertain.
None would notice his hesitation following the gunshot, but what transpired would weigh heavily on him in the time to come.
Hope to see you all tomorrow night and will hear your thoughts!
