The world continued to move around me, but I had completely stopped.
I knew King Ayden was still looking at me. I knew that at this point, at least one of Elara’s advisors would have pointed out our conversation to her. I knew all of that, but I had no idea how I had never landed on that theory before.
King, not a strong leader.
I could finally understand what Amelia had felt when people told her she was the wrong class, because this felt like the right class. My entire being celebrated that I had finally figured it out, or at least that someone had finally had the balls to tell me, but my head was still in turmoil. There was no other option but to go to war against Alaric now, because a man like him would never allow another king to exist. I was a threat to his crown, just like the r
