DAREN MONTESSORI
He didn't say the words I…
The night was thick. It was the kind that weighed heavy on your shoulders, as if even the moon didn’t want to look at what I was about to do.
I walked alone. No guards. No wolves. Just the silence of a broken man seeking answers he didn’t want to believe.
The cage was deep within the dungeon. No one dared go down there unless I permitted it. No one even remembered who was down there… except me… and the guards who watched over and brought him food… just enough to stay alive.
He was once my brother in battle. My friend in war. The only one who ever looked me in the eye and dared to speak the truth. To him, my opinion didn't count if he didn't consider it the right one.
And that was why I locked him up.
I didn’t need his judgment. I di
