Chapter 65: Announcements

"We will name prince Taniel the new king, with princess Alana as regent," Tearie said. Anastasios was in the back and looking at the crowds with wonder.

The princess was not booed. Nothing was thrown at the royal box. People just bowed their heads and accepted the new change.

Anastasios looked down at his hands.

After he had heard the story, and had drunk the water, he began to think. Really think, not just begin a train of thought, and then abandon it, as he had done in the past.

They had been exiles, their entire branch of the family, for a long time. Then, they had been forced to come back to Eagle's Sanctuary, and things had gone off the deep end.

Their father had become a schemer, their mother had turned bitter. There was a rivalry between all siblings, no matter how close they used to be, before coming to the country of their ancestors.

It had happened in a blink.