Adam rolled his eyes when he read Leoric's next lines.
"Excuse me for the outburst, heir, but I'll cut this historical recollection short. We defeated the demonic general, and I believed the realm would enter an era of peace. A mistake that didn't account for what we lost for this victory. The abridged version is: someone who shouldn't have died did. Everything after that became a downward spiral of madness that consumed Haldris and his wife.
With the demonic threat cleared, they compelled me and the five other Houses to do the unthinkable... and I followed for the promise of reuniting with Cordelia. Against all odds, that madness earned us the very province my island was in, but not the return of our loved ones. The realms' guardians called it a reward. It was a forced exile, a method to evict the most dangerous humans along with Leviathan in a miniaturised world.
