At a crossroads.

Need to write this out to decide what I should do. I'm walking down this path and now I see that it splits in two path, one has a complex ending for my triangle and places all my favourite characters in comfortable positions. The second path has an obvious outcome for my triangle.

The first path. This was my original idea. Niko goes to the palace to spend her week with the prince and about halfway through she hears from Ruben that he family has been taken and sold off into slavery. She leaves the palace with an apology letter. packs up everything she can and travels with Ruben to find them. She discovers that the man who kidnapped her father and brother answers to a higher power and that power is also responsible for sending someone to Milstonia to try and kill off the heir but attacks the king instead. But who? How is this solved? Who does Niko choose? The prince obviously goes after her and discovers his princess is just a farmer's daughter. How does he react? Is he offended? (Now that would be a bit of a twist) or does he end up with Niko and then what happens with Ruben.

The second path has a twist. Mathias is the bad guy. He hired an attack on his father so that he is injured enough to realize he's not strong enough to run the kingdom. Mathias wants him to resign so he can be king and save the kingdom for he recognizes a corruption in it that his father doesn't. In a way then he isn't the bad guy and maybe he's able to save Niko's situation without her having to run away. In the end she forgives Mathias's ways but does not think she can be with someone willing to go to such lengths to achieve his ends.

Other ideas to consider. I've laid the ground work for some kinda magic to exist within the kingdom that connects to Niko's and possibly even Mathias' mother. Ever since they died, or Calista at least, the kingdom has been falling into despair beginning with the harvest and moving up the economy. In this sense I could play at magic and make it so that Niko must take over as guardian of Milstonia after her mother and thus will have saved the land. In this case I could just stick with the first path and have this be the solution to all their troubles. In this case, part of what Calista was responsible was for being a positive influence on the town, without her the hearts of many of the villagers have rotted.

Still left with... who should Niko choose? Who would i choose? I've written Ruben and Mathias as such similar characters. Maybe I'll have it that Mathias is the impractical dreamer whereas Ruben is the type of man to get the job done.

Great now what should I write today...