The night before, he had been summoned by his father for an after-dinner discussion. Mikah had to listen to nearly an hour-long ramble about how far he had fallen in such a short time. It was his father who had pushed him into the apprenticeship with Tahir, citing that the closer they were to the man, the more they would be in power. It was never said outright, but Mikah’s father had found out it was he who had stopped Tahir from killing Kinza. It would be something close to treason to speak out against that act, but his father had gotten dangerously close.
Instead, he had thrown scalding words at Mikah about how pathetic he was for accepting an Advisor position instead of attempting to swoon the new queen into marriage. Mikah had to suppress an eye-roll. If only he knew. Throughout that
