-Laelia-
It felt like I lost all my confidence from his words, and I had to spend a little time regaining my focus. But slowly I focused on him again.
“You did,” I replied. “But it seems that my uncle was the mastermind after all. Blaze and Sirrush were just his marionette dolls.”
“Ah yes, I never expected much from the two of them,” Mefan remarked. “Even Sirrush, while he would never admit it, was careless and hotheaded. He thought himself to be smart, the politician, the strategist, and the king all wrapped in one. Yet he was nothing but a child crying over the fact he had been cheated out of the crown he so desperately wanted.”
I sat there, listening as he described Sirrush to perfection. That brother had always made me the most uneasy because he seemed to be the one who wanted to a
