Leela
A crowd had formed as the people of Daro poured into the palace gardens. It made me realise how distant we were from our people. Though my father cared for the people of his land, Eli seemed to treat them as equals. The access they had to their king was something I hadn't seen before. I noticed he referred to them as his 'pack.'
We stood at the top of the steps, me at Eli's right and Mama Tasmina, Asha and Uncle Felan to his left. The Dowager Queens stood behind us, while his closest men, including the men who had accompanied him to Varun, and all his brothers except Kai, stood before us.
They all stood wearing grey shalwars and nothing else. For the second time, Eli wore a black shalwar, and a gold cuff across his bicep.
Other than his slightly red-rimmed eyes, there was no si
