To live, to survive, to thrive,

by general well


chapter 7, 3 days before peace talks.

*Knock* *knock* ‘‘Now what’’ I rub my eyes and yawn. I get off my bed and walk over to the door. I open it and see it is mystic is the one knocking. ‘‘Mystic! Why are you knocking, its 4 in the morning!’’

Mystic close his eyes and pulls out a book. ‘‘Well, you told me to wake you up  early.’’ Mystic said as he open his eyes. ‘‘And, the peace talk will be in two days, so you need to get ready for it.’’

‘‘Ok Mystic, just let me get my suit.’’ mystic nod and I close the door.

‘‘Who was that Tom?’’ Maria ask from our bed.

‘‘It Mystic.’’ I answered as I went to the closet.

‘‘Is it about the peace talk?’’ she said as she get off the bed.

‘‘Yes, it is.’’ I grab a blue suit and also a red tie with black shoes. ‘‘So, Maria get dress, we have a long day ahead of us.’’ I said to her as I put my pants on.

‘‘I know that Tom, I need to go to the opening of the City Hospital, take Rex for a walk and see the local farms.’’ Maria said as she went in the bathroom.

A lot of work.
‘‘My today work is, planning for the peace talk, pick someone for the new Minister of Information and intelligence, which are in fact different. The intelligence is spying, the Information is about history, books, day of birth and other thing about the country and its people.’’ I said as I get out the closet.

‘‘How about other Minister?’’ Maria ask from the bathroom.

‘‘That can wait later, for now I'm running all them until I find someone qualified to be one of them.’’ I grab my watch and put it on my wrist.

‘‘Ok.’’ Maria said as she walked out the bathroom door. She walks over to me and we kiss for 5 seconds. ‘‘Well Tom, you need to leave now, you'll be late.’’ She said as she points at my watch.

I look at my watch and realized, it 4:54 am.
‘‘You right Maria, I need to go.’’ she gets off of me and I walk over to the door. ‘‘Bye.’’

‘‘Bye.’’ she said. With that I open the door and walk out of the room and close the door behind me and started walking through the hallway until I hear footsteps behind me and I turn around. It is mystic.

He simply walk up to me while holding the book. It looks strange seeing a four legged creature walk on three legs while holding something.

‘‘Tom, I may have found somepony to become the head of information, do you want to meet her?’’. Mystic ask.

‘‘Ok, do you know how good she is.’’ I said with a happy expression. Hopefully she's good because this way too much work.

‘‘well.…. She used to be a secretary until till she was captured.’’ mystic said sad tone. ‘‘But she's only one qualified to become head of the minister of information, what I know about her that she's really good keeping organized.’’ he said with a happy tone of voice.

‘‘That's a good thing,   Mystic.’’ I say to him as we enter the throne room.
Ahead of me I see a dark red unicorn with blue eyes and brown hair. Which to me is a really evil look. her a cutie mark is a stack of paper with deny and approve stamp on it. We walk up to her and I proceeded to sit on my throne.

‘‘What's your name?’’

She blew her hair or mane out of her face and preceded to walk up to me.

‘‘My name is Secret Info, I'm 52 years old, I was a secretary for my mayor of my small little town for 32 year, I got a invite from Celestia School for Gifted Unicorns for being really good with magic but I decided to pursue my talent.

‘‘Very interesting miss Info, this job it's about being organized, if your talent is about that, you may get the job.’’ I lean close to her face. ‘‘All I need to know, do you get stressful, do you have a great immune system, do you have a great memory and last, are you trustworthy enough. Because I do not want a traitor among us.’’ I get off my throne and walk a few feet.
With her behind me to add a serious atmosphere in the room.
‘‘Because treason is a serious crime, giving information to other countries, group, and terrorist without our permission can be lethal.’’ I turn around and face her.
‘‘So..... How can I trust you.’’

I may have broken her. I thought. She hadn't move for 5 minutes. Ahh, ok she's moving again.

‘‘My king, I have been thinking, to show my loyalty, I give you my precious family heirloom.’’ Secret Info said. She proceeded to take off  her diamond encrusted gold necklace and hand it to me.

I look at it. This may cost millions dollar in America, so she is serious. 
I put the necklace in my pocket. ‘‘Are you willing to sacrifice this for my loyalty?’’

‘‘Yes.’’ she said with the her head down.

‘‘Mystic, take her to her new office, look like we found someone, welcome aboard Miss Info.’’

‘‘Thank you.’’ Info said with a happy tone.

Mystic took Secret Info out of the room. Living me alone with my guards. I turn to look at them.

‘‘Open the door.’’

Both of the guards open the huge Oak door letting a mass of my subject in.

It's going to be a long day.

1 hour of pointless and some serious issues later…

‘‘I telling you! Your don't need your mother permission to get married, its your choice.’’

Another hour….

‘‘I don't care that you don't have soap, go buy some from the store, this is real issues, not Personal life, now get out!’’

And another hour…..

‘‘What's wrong with having a prisons being built, we already have couples scum, what, do you want them, we need a prison for these criminals or you want me to executed them.’’

2 more hour later….

‘‘Finally, I'm done.’’ I said with tired voice.
(All of the subject has left the room.)
Now to worry about more important issues.
‘‘Miss Note, what do you have today.’’ I asked my secretary. She looks up from her notes.

‘‘Well my king, a local family farm is in trouble by wolves, they want you to send help to deal with the wolves.’’ Note said while putting her reading glasses on.

‘‘Approve.’’

‘‘Another issue is, having a park, most citizens want a city park, so they sign a petition, it's almost have everyone in the city in it.’’ she said. (I told her to say everyone instead of every pony, because it isn't racist and more easier.)

‘‘Approve, what else.’’

‘‘Other town and villages want running water and electricity and I pretty sure I know what you're going to response.’’ Note said with a yawn.

I simply nodded.

‘‘Well that's all, there soon to come more at 5pm, goodbye my king.’’ she said. With that she left the room.