CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR
As he went down to the castle’s gardens, Thanos found himself looking around suspiciously. The pressure of what he was doing weighed down on him now, and he found himself looking for a spot where he could just be himself for a moment without risking his life.
Everywhere else in the castle, it seemed that he had to hide what he felt and who he was. If anyone saw his anger over what had happened to Ceres, if anyone saw through the act he’d put up to his sympathies for the rebels, then he would be dead, noble of the Empire or not.
They would call him a traitor, when the truth was that they were the ones betraying the interests of their own people. They were the ones taking from their people, and Thanos had heard how much worse it had gotten since he’d left. He’d heard a
