Kale Barrington III

Kale Barrington III

     King Kale Barrington II loved his first son with every fiber of his being. In his eyes, his son reminded him of his first love, the Queen. She did not survive giving birth to Kale III. The King took a personal hand in the caring and raising for his baby boy. By age three, the tiny prince won the hearts of most of the staff.
     National politics wait for no prince to grow. The King had a chance to solidify all of Drew without bloodshed. All he had to do was simply marry the first daughter of his chief rival, Duke Geoff Gudrun.  So, Bonnie Gudrun became Queen Barrington.
     The queen encouraged King Kale to have children. Soon enough, prince Kale became a brother. Thus began a rift between Prince Kale and the rest of his siblings. The King and Queen had eight children over the next decade. For the Queen's credit, she made every effort to keep peace between the children and smooth the rough edges which continued to grow. The King kept prince Kale and his first wife foremost in his heart. He unconsciously treated the rest of the children as secondary. They felt it and they focused their frustration upon prince Kale.
     The rest of the children would try to get prince Kale in trouble. He would outsmart them at every turn. When the eldest of Bonnie, Elaina, became a teenager, the tables turned on the prince. She was able to trick and manipulate the situation for prince Kale. The King reluctantly punished his golden child. Yearning to mold his protégé, the King assigned prince Kale to work in every area of the castle as penance, and when the infraction was particularly severe, the King locked prince Kale in a high tower for long periods of time.
     Prince Kale knew that his father was looking out for him, so he used every minute improving himself. As he approached his late teens, he requested work in the kitchens. He excelled in the ordered chaos of that job. The head chef instructed young Kale in all his tricks and even allowed the prince to plan an official state dinner. When the King discovered that his guests raving over his sons menu, he could not have been more proud. Elaina and her sibling accomplices, became really ugly. They made prince Kale's life truly miserable.
     When he turned twenty, he made his mind to leave the castle. He could not bear to leave his father, but his siblings made every moment in his home torment. He spent the next two years planning the flight and gathering gear for the trip. He just never found the courage until that one night during the summer of his twenty second year.