In this chapter, we learn that the princess has been acting crazy lately. She has asked her father, the king of lean, to invite her husband and son-in-law, cecil and sophia, to come to the palace to witness the marriage of the two men. The king, however, has already sent an invitation to the men, and he tells his father that the people of Norterang are "born treacherous" because they are "all handpicked by me" . He also tells him that cecil has accepted the marriage because he is planning "something great" for the kingdom, and that it would do them "a world of good." The king tells his son that he will not let himself off if such a thing ever happens, as the "patrick medal," the highest honor that a prince can receive, symbolizes the "greatest honor a prince may acquire." He adds that they have already begun recruiting slaves in the west, and as soon as Uncle Macken is away from the border, they can expand the scope of the recruitment.