I froze in my seat, and stared at everyone blankly till his words actually registered in my brain. As I processed each and every word that he said, blood slowly drained from the face and I was sure I looked like a scared cat. "What?!" The word that came out was just a squeak. It wasn't that I wasn't capable to handle such a large empire - if I put my self to it, I was sure I would end up doing a lot better than Vikrant did. Also, it wasn't that I didn't want to help all the people in front of me - if it had been an important option, then I would have moved heaven and earth to revert the empire back to it's previous glory. But when I knew that each person sitting in front of me was more than capable to take the place, and also that Neil would himself be fit enough to take back his p

