"What I'm about to tell you goes back to a very long time ago," Aegan began, looking off into the distance as his mind recalled the memory from long ago, "back to when your father and his brother were only just boys..."
Lavern was born five years after Nicolas; a joyful child whom the latter loved and cared for greatly. The young princes were practically inseparable as children. Wherever one was found, the other was surely to follow. They did everything together, learnt everything together; and their closeness grew so tight that they became more like twins than siblings. In fact, the age gap between the duo was only brought up in jest and never taken seriously.
But as strong as the love between the brothers were, their competition was even fiercer. No one could really tell when or how th
