A Truce?

The elven ancient looked at the king sitting on his throne and sighed: "Was that the right thing to do?"

"How is it not? That idiot son of mind has no idea what he is doing. Now he will probably resent me and try to kill me to take the throne. But sadly, unless he is more powerful than me, even if he were to try to poison me, he would not be able to take this throne.