“I take back what I said about you being a beast,” I said. “There isn't a word to describe the filth you are.”
“I am a man who can get things done. Which is more than can be said for the incompetent one who sits the throne, and the less competent one who ran away. They chase pipe dreams while the people they claim to protect live in fear of monsters. I've held strong against their campaigns to depose me, and more of the masses side with me every day. Astra seeks a cure, and I am the medicine they crave.”
He really did love the sound of his own voice. Every second I spent listening to him convinced me more that Hawke and Uraj were right to distrust him.
“There is a reason I have come to talk to you,” he continued on. “As impotent as they have been, the Old Kings still hold sway as symbol
