Uninvited Guest

"Everyone, I would like to have a few minutes of your time." The people on the castle grounds turned silent in that instant. All of them staring at the [Image Core] that floated in the air; giving them a live feed of King Jubilee.

"I know that all of you are aware of one fact, that the Culling was supposed to happen today." It was a fact, nobody has forgotten about the Culling. Not after all the years which passed that embedded the event into the very being of the citizens.

"We were supposed to send our children into a pit of hell. Forcing them to fight one another as if this was the natural state of our being. We would have seen treachery, deceit, brutality, hopelessness. We would have witnessed the worst of what a human could do to his fellow." King Jubilee said everything as matters of fact. Things which were undeniably true for everyone.