Alios wasn’t used to being wrong.
Alright that was a lie. That was such a huge and blatant falsehood that he was surprised Salix and Mena hadn’t spontaneously developed the power of telepathy just so they could come running across the length and breadth of the castle to whack him over the head for even daring to think such a thing.
It would be more accurate to say that he wasn’t used to admitting that he was wrong, especially in front of people who were outside of his close advisors. A king had to be many things, and cunning was one of those qualities, and Alios was usually sharp enough to avoid difficult situations or at least escape them with relative ease.
Beyond that, he wasn’t some untrained pup, or some stumbling neophyte with horns too big for his skull. He was a demon and an a
