Ch. 189 Puller of strings

"Yes, that is exactly what I am asking you to do. However, instead of being a puppet dancing for some puller of strings, you will be a Voice of the People for one of many territories that belong to my empire. That is until you step down from the position, or the people vote for someone to take your place as their Voice. I am only giving you this opportunity to be the first Voice of Shifting Sands Territory because you made it clear that you do not stand with the mages, and wish for their deaths."

"How is that any better than bowing to a mage? The way it sounds to me, I will be loosing my crown completely. I truly thank you from the bottom of my heart, for killing those mages, and thus freeing my people from them. But I can not be the one to refasten the slave collars around the necks of my people, when it just came off. All that would change for them is the name of the master that they bow their heads to as they work to death."