9th Month
The castle of Stone Hedge had been decorated lavishly in preparation for the upcoming events. Its usual dreary and brutal walls were now coloured with the banners of House Bracken and House Osgrey. The fields surrounding the castle had pitched up a city of tents for the many guests that would be arriving with retinues. A tourney yard had been built with enough seats for hundreds of spectators to peer at the lists and melee arena.
Inside, the castle had been beautifully decorated that emphasised the power and pride of not just House Bracken, but of the Riverlands. Tapestries of Red Horses, Trouts, Towers and Castles decked the walls of the main hall. Each House of the Kingdom was represented on a tapestry, to show how united and strong the kingdom was. Over the dais however, was a newly made banner showing the red stallion of House Bracken intermingling with the checkered lion of House Osgrey in an embrace, representing the union that was to take place.
The feast that had been prepared was awash with dishes from both the Riverlands and from the Reach. Plenty of fish and meat, along with the coloured vegetables and wheat based food of the Reach. Peppered trout, steamed hams, grilled carrots and asparagus'. The would also be wine a plenty, Arbor Reds and Gold along with the finest ales this side of the Trident.
But all of that was need to wait, for now the ceremony needed to take place. All the guests had been piled into the Sept of Stone Hedge, awaiting the wedding to begin. At the top of the altar Prince Erik stood. His beard neatly trimmed and his jet black hair combed away from his face. He stood wearing a beautifully tailored orange doublet and cloak, the trimmings were that of crimson red. Upon his chest was the red stallion of House Bracken for which his house likened themselves to. In the crowd, his father and all his siblings were all wearing similar gowns or doublets, all with differing variations of trimming or perhaps lacking a cloak. His father, King Otho, merely stared with eyes of a man who was silently commanding his son to do his duty. It was no secret among the family that Erik did not like the idea of marriage, he had been the free spirit of the family, yet here he was being tied down.
But deep down, Erik knew he needed to. He had long suspected that if he didn't marry, his father would make Lyle the heir. And, to be fair, Lyle would probably make a better king. He was wiser than Erik. Yet Erik had been born first and
... keep reading on reddit ➡About once a year, when I can find the strength, I do a news search to see what Blackwater-founder Erik Prince has been up to, and he never disappoints. He's always doing things that are immoral, unethical, and often illegal. Keep in mind that this is only a sampling from just this past year.
Let's start with the immoral.
> Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of military contractor Blackwater, is charging $6,500 per seat on a chartered plane out of Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Prince saw the tragedy unfolding and decided that was an opportunity to add to his billions.
Now let's move on to the unethical. There's a lot of territory to cover here.
> Erik Prince, the former head of security contractor Blackwater and a top ally of former President Trump, was reportedly part of a deal crafted last year to distribute an experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Prince is involved with the possible distribution of the UB-612 vaccine, which is being developed by U.S. firm COVAXX, according to Reuters, which cited business records and three people familiar with the arrangement.
..."There's room for a couple dollars per dose in commissions," Prince reportedly said in a Nov. 9 text to Paul Behrends, a former associate.
Tragedy? People dying? Prince is right there. But there's more unethical than just that.
> A former British spy and Republican mega-donor Erik Prince, a founder of the private military contractor Blackwater (now rebranded as "Academi) and brother to former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, recruited a motley crew of home-grown American operatives from the conservative group Project Veritas and elsewhere to lead an initiative to infiltrate state-level Democratic party organizations and campaigns, according to a new report.
What a surprise that his sister Betsy DeVos is involved in unethical conduct. That's really some kind of family.
Finally, let's look at the [illegal](https://theintercept.com/2021/02/26/erik-prince-jordan-libya-
