Always a step ahead

Magnus' POV

"You must live your life to be extraordinary. Otherwise, there is no difference than living like leeches." My mother used to say. I had followed her word to word, creating an enigma of myself before everyone I stood, swooping them off their feet with my charisma and brilliance. 

"Look at him! So handsome and such a great soldier!"

"He's even better than the king and his worthless son."

"He's the one who actually runs this empire."

Words from my people haunt me as I sit in my small cell, barely accomodating the vastness of my thoughts. I had lived and breathed for that empire, putting every breath of my excellence to make it great, so that people from far and wide sing it's great glory, and look where that has landed me now. 

A tiny prison far off in a fugitive island. Not enough to contain my greatness. I swear, the meanest cells of Arphoelus were bigger than this, but now...this is what I have been reduced to.