"Ah Dyrenx, if only they saw me like this, only like this, then maybe they would have somehow found the strength to forgive me. But it was never the case, never at any time. So from that moment on, I didn't have a choice either.
He was silent for a moment before confessing.
"I think there was a time when I went so far as to try to change my own story. Or more precisely," he corrected, cynically, "to change what I was."
The king swallowed his saliva.
"And so? Had that happened, your majesty?"
The young ruler laughed.
"I believe the answer lies before you, Dyrenx. It was simply impossible. Just as it was impossible, even for us Zeogs, to stop someone from loving."
This time Dyrenx nodded, but still regarded him with poignant intensity and then decided to reveal what he really believed.