CHAPTER FIVE
“I would like to hear from you all your opinion on the woman’s story,” His Majesty spoke up after the doors had been shut.
A few of the attendees in the council room stared at one another before one of the men stood. “The woman tells a most extraordinary tale, Your Majesty, but I do not think she can be trusted. Her description of the fruit of immortality is too perfect.”
“But would it not be if she set her own eyes upon it?” the prince countered.
The man smiled and bowed his head to the other. “That is true, My Prince, but I am merely suggesting that she had read a scroll and learned of its description.”
“A pity there is none left of the first generation to confirm her report of the tree,” another chimed in as he folded his arms over his chest. “There are so few desc
