Silence

When my brother, the King, married fifteen-years ago, I welcomed his new family as my own. His wife . . . her baby girl. My niece by marriage.I left to war the savages. For years I traveled back and forth, seeing that child age.But then the last battle kept me away for five years . . . I’ve returned now to take my rightful place: second-in-command to the throne. I am everything this kingdom stands for—everything it needs. The kind of pillar not even my brother can aspire to being.They all look u