Morning

Though I knew his compassion meant nothing to what will become of it when he is King. Humans are fragile, and even though we might not face it one comes to know it. Our livelihoods are as quick to end as one wrong move on an egg shell. I watched how my own father, an assassin, a man who thought was untouchable, got struck by an illness that was passed through something as small as a another sick persons droplet. He died not even a month later. Power that is given to one who is that fragile desensitises their true nature. One thinks just because they're in a positions of power that they are now untouchable and that's only possible if your were to prove that you are utterly the pinnacle of perfection and immortal. Ludicrous. It's delusion. But that is the price of power. It either heroises you or it villianizes you. And it's usually the later, because one will come to conclude that their pride is taking all the choices being made and is eating away at a majority of what once characterised them . I've lived long enough to witness how kings and queens throughout these kingdoms start to abuse the power given to them in no time. King of Seeda being one. He has a law constitution which obliges capital punishment on anyone who speaks bad of him. Its was only recent that a hanging happened in the city after word was passed to a kings guard. A young woman complained of their low pay and how the King was at fault for the increasing poverty in the city, and also apparently called him 'revolting'. Do I believe that she said that? Yes. Everything she made comment about is true. He pays his people very little of the wealth he owns and rather not distribute it accordingly. His kingdom is stricken with poverty, there is no doubt about that. Yet he doesn't care, since he's not the one that is poor after all. The fact that the old man and young child I came across, which the prince helped in the forest, was only able to make enough money of a year's worth of saving made that clear. Their income was so insufficient that a family is only able to trade food for money ,rather than hunt for it, after one whole year. Not to mention the countless amount of innocent people he has arrested because they confided in him so that he can help them with their situation. He has no relationship with his people, and I know his people after a whilst have realised they do not want one with him either. Everyone speaks bad of him, everyone only ever mentions his name in a disgusted tone. But King Gafid Of Seeda, could not arrest and kill everyone over it. So he makes it his point to, he hangs people and this tells them.. this is how much power I hold over everyone so what are you going to do about it? It's a passive threat. His people are under an oppressive regime and an egocentric King who abuses that power with his pride and selfishness. It is why I hate him, the Queen however, is only after revenge. Id found that out from my father. He had admitted things to me and my mother whilst he lay on his bed dieing. I figured it was during those hours that he had finally came to realise that he's lived most of his life in dimness, self sabotaging any light from ever emitting through it. I could tell that it was a moment of regret, feeling that his heart is failing him and not him failing it this time by abandoning it of the warmth that a heart naturally needs. That the things he did where in the it's simplest terms, not worth it.

'Leave, leave.' He told me repeatedly. I just nodded. I knew it was out of sympathy because he knew I never wanted this. I knew I had no other choice. It was either here, or Seeda. Anywhere else.. didn't exist. We didn't have the money to travel across seas even if we tried to save for it our whole lives.