Nobody expects the Spanish inquisition

Today I saw a film about Spanish inquisition and thought that have my king commit also in such crimes?
The screams of the innocest souls are still echoing in those empty chambers of the Tower of London.
Those poor souls who finally confessed themselfs as witches, heretics or something even worse, just to make the pain stop. 
If my memory serves me right I remember that Sharon Kay Penman wrote something about this issue in her novel "The Sunne in Splendour". 


She had made the powerful lords to say that confession which is given by a tortured person is not trusty one.
I hope some of them in the middle ages was so smart that he did realise that. I also wrote a scene where 
king Richard is chastening his men for using torture as a hearing method.
I really hope that he didn't allow torturing or any other kind of bullying.


Thank goodness the times have changed! What are you saying? They are not!
The mankind is still the same as it was then, only the methods of hearings have become more fanciful...

Who would comfort the king?

Have you evet thought about those people who will always support you and encourage you when you need it? They seem to have endless amout of energy and power which keeps them going but what will happen when their energy runs out?

"Who will save me when I need help? I'm so tired of being strong all the time and saving everybody's skins before I concern my own safety!" 

That is what he once said to me. Who indeed will take care of him when he is weak and powerless? For all this time I have known him he have always been the strongest one of us. A mountain which will never bend but everything have it's braking point. I see it now. He is old and sad but he refuses to show it to anyone even to his dearest friends because in the end he must be the mountain which will never bend.


"Who am I?"

"You are our king, sire"

"Do you trust on your king?"

"Till the very end"

Burning ice

"The sun caught in his raven hair is blazing in me out of all control" ,said the powerful Icequeen when her eyes fixed on King Richard. 


Obsession it can be healthy one or hellish one. The Queen whose heart was made from ice suddenly felt burning desire towards the King of Ghosts. She observed him from her palace and waited patiently for her time.
I'm sure each one of us have felt the same feeling and the same frustration.You are hiding in the shadows 
and obseve your target. You'll wait and wait and wait for what? One look, one word, one smile, I'm sure it was worth of waiting...


I can see in my mind's eye those burning eyes of the Icequeen. After long time of waiting she finally got her chanse but Richard turned her down. The Queen became very upset and she unleashed her freezing stroms.
The snow and ice covered everything like a melt lava freezing all the living...


"If I can't have you then nobody will!" she screamed over the storm.