Chapter 9: Gift

"Respected Princess Vero, please allow me to express the sincerest birthday wishes from the 170,000 citizens of Caucasus on your behalf. We are fortunate to witness Princess Vero age another joyful year and to behold our kingdom's most beautiful girl's unparalleled beauty, which is dedicated to Princess Vero. I believe that my friends and I, upon our return to Caucasus, to Homer, will have new bragging rights amongst our kin." It had been several years since I had used such deceitful flattery on a naive girl. The absurd times of womanizing seemed to flash before my eyes. Was it absurd? Komer wasn't sure. Perhaps that was the exuberance of youth, the only way to prove the vigor of one's prime youth was indeed burning within.