The proposal was sent to the neighboring king in secret, under the guise of it being a letter being sent from Sin to Arianna. Anybody who was smart would know not to be shooting down the albino falcon that was streaking away from the castle. A bird that belonged to Sin herself, something that she had rescued as a young chick and had raised and trained carefully over the years. Yet as they waited for the reply they came to learn some rather tragic news; that Eric couldn't become the king at all. There seemed to be a law in place, an old one that some of the advisors had missed when looking over to see how they could make this work, where it said that the current ruler had to be eighteen years old to inherit the throne and no younger.
It was almost a week before they had gotten a response from the neighboring king. Sin was out on the training field sparring with a few of the knights that were there, her platinum blonde locks pulled up into a tight ponytail at the time. She heard a familiar screech from the sky which had her calling a halt to the sparring as her albino falcon came streaking down to her, landing on her outstretched arm. The woman was unafraid of letting the large bird perch on her arm without padding. It had taken a long time to train the bird to land with digging in his talons but she had managed to do it, now he had his talons merely wrapped around her arm as though gently holding onto it.
She was taking the letter from him and gently scratching at his head, which had him seeming to give a bird like hum of happiness. The letter looked like it was from Arianna; which had her giving a faint frown as she opened it up after the bird had taken off. The news definitely had her pausing for a moment and a frown darkening on her lips. Well this wasn't good news at all, and she was stuffing the letter way hastily as she heard a familiar voice of the king as he came up with a rather petite woman. Oh yeah she had forgotten that tonight was the night that they were having that stupid engagement ball; which she wasn't at all looking forward too.
Before she could even do anything at all she was being dragged off by the woman, who was exclaiming that they needed to start getting prepared. The ball was only a few hours away. At least before Sin was dragged off by the woman she was able to slip the note she had gotten into Richard's personal guard's hand. Hopefully he would understand what he was needing to do. When the note was taken to Richard it would basically explain that the princess had been kidnapped and that there was a fleet of his father's men waiting on the outskirts of the kingdom, waiting to strike if this engagement didn't happen tonight.