The Villain's Hero
“What do you think?”
“I think that you are making a point with this meal,” I told him earnestly. “Ecaeris and Akyran took away Aien, so you are showing them by placing him at a lower table that they did not take away something that you value. And as Aien would not come when you asked him, you are punishing him by having me wear his mother’s dress,” I did not doubt that he knew that Aien and I had been lovers. I did not know how it was that he had determined it, but he had, and that was why he had targeted me.
“As your wife gave her life for the villagers, you take their lives,” I continued. “And that one is a double-edged sword because in doing that, you also punish her for her sacrifice, by