You decide to be a good husband and talk with her.
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Your attempt was laden with good intentions, but your tone of voice and the choice of words did nothing to alleviate Hege's worries and depression. Instead, what was supposed to be a supprotive conversation descnded into a blame game; Hege blaming your sickly body for inferior seed, and you blaming Hege for intentionally killing your child.
After a long while of loud argument laden with expletives, Hege shrieks and throws a silver goblet at your face before storming out of her bedchamber, crying and sobbing inelegantly. You rub the cut on your cheek before calling in the servants to see the wound.
You couldn't have done worse than this.
807 NWE, Summer
Its been two weeks since Hege stopped talking to you.
But you have more important matters to attend to right now.
"According to the reports, bandit activity in the southern province of Malgamate is worrying high, your Majesty." Explains the Advisor, glancing from scroll to scroll, a pile on your desk. "Its undoubtedly that these bandits are 'warming up', for lack of better word, before perhaps launching attacks at your tax collectors, or worse, the winter-time caravans of silver bullion. Local governors have asked for the Crown to provide soldiers to deal with this steadily growing problem."
A) "No! Its their roads, their land, their responsibility."
B) "Fine then, send some troops to hunt down the criminal scum."
C) "Such tasks are below our Army; instead, send the governors some money to recruit an adventurer group or four."