The king's voice seemed the whisper of the wind in the willows when the day is about to die. “Luigi, why did you do it? What was the need? I don't understand where you want to go.” “Let me talk, please. We have spoken many times lately without understanding each other as before, and I recognize that the fault was exclusively mine. I love you, I always wanted you, perhaps in an exaggerated way, wrong, I don't know, but I swear to you that I loved you as a friend and a brother and a father and if I prevented you from going to sea it was only because I was afraid of losing you forever. I wanted you just for me: that is the truth. The others were just excuses. I wanted to keep you at court when you came back from your trip, but I couldn't do it. I felt like a coward in the way I treated you,

