THE SPIDER’S WEB
I couldn’t remember the first time I met Ridhan Shipwight. It wasn’t because I didn’t have my mind temple or because of any lack of memory. It was because we met when we were babies. I had known Ridhan my entire life, and even from an early age, I knew something was off about him.
It may have been that he was an only child. Or maybe it was because his mother died giving birth to him. Or maybe people are just born a certain way and that’s who they are. Maybe it’s how they are raised.
Regardless, what should have been a lifelong friendship between the children of the two most powerful families in the South, never happened. Instead, there was a budding rivalry that gave way to a quiet ostracization. He’d kept to his interests and friends, and I’d kept to mine. We crossed p
