Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
~Voltaire
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S-save?
Ravenna's pulse thundered as she looked up in disbelief. For the first time, her eyes, glistening in unshed tears, sparked with emotions, and he grinned.
For a second, silence reigned and she gasped as soon as his presence was missing. But his words still lingered in her mind.
She knew she shouldn't trust the words of a King. Only a fool steps into a brook where a leech-filled current feeds without being drained… but only the mad step into waters ruled by a smiling man. And in this, King Aldren wasn't just a man. He was entirely a wolf.
He walked back to his throne-like chair, sinking his mass once more. A smirk played on his mouth, "I should've explained the knowledge he imparted on my Kingdom. Bleeding so nicely his magic extraction developed a new science discovery of an extensive life span. Like draining a well with esprit,"