THERE WAS authority and power in the way Malik spoke that I could no longer delude myself. It was my first time hearing him use that tone on me. The way he stood and uttered every word including the way he looked at me all changed in a jiffy, it was so different from the Emperor whom I saw the past few weeks. There was this sudden aura around him that cannot be denied.
To be honest, his decoy lacked the commanding presence which Malik possessed which sometimes had me thinking about who had the real authority in the Castle.
In my eyes, he was still the same man but he seemed so different compared to the playful General that I thought I knew.
Standing before me was the King of Kings indeed, the very man who could easily divide a kingdom if he wills it, the man who bravely stopped the war
