Excerpt from Herald of a New Era 2

“Don’t you dare try to change the subject. What I want is to serve my king as is my sworn duty. You deliberately stole property of the crown that you were supposed to destroy. You ran away from service only one day before you would’ve been retired. Why?? I don’t understand.” Uvior opened his mouth to speak, but was interrupted. “It doesn’t matter why anymore. You are a traitor to your king and your country. I am disappointed in you.”

There had once been a day when that simple statement would have stung, but Uvior’s days of disillusionment were over. This was not his brother. This was a man who continued to ignore the evils he was perpetuating in order to further his own goals, and Uvior hated how much of himself he saw reflected back at him.

They had survived the same battles, laughed at the misfortune of their fallen foes, cried at the graves of their fallen friends, raided the same storehouses, sweat under the same sun, and sworn the same blood-stained oath.

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