053: Unexpected Reunions

[Primus]

They say those who know us the best can cut us the deepest.

Once, Atremi Glaveheart was one of my only friends in the palace. My mother was distant, running affairs in the Celestial Kingdom while my father spent her dowry and procured new mistresses. I was close to my clutchmate, Ona, but she was off on official business most of the time. As the male heir, it was my responsibility to stay close to home, to learn from my father, and to make connections that would serve me during my reign.

All I ended up learning from King Maximus is how much of a disappointment I was. Too soft, too kind, not ruthless like my younger brother Segundus. But I was the first hatched male, and so, the duty fell to me to take his place once he was gone.

So in an attempt to make me a “real king,” my father brought in a special “tutor.” And because he wanted someone fierce enough to force me to be a beast, he selected an ambitious general from the southern front, an air drake by the name of Atremi