Blood

[Maximus]

[Earlier that afternoon]

My eyes are heavy but I cannot sleep, even though the sun is glowing so bright that my eyes burn.

I can smell them. My heirs. They are close, to the castle walls. One of my children has produced a brood, but which one? Ona didn’t smell broody the last time I saw her. Segundus, perhaps. He has been spending a lot of time with Eleanora, the lady from the borderlands. Maybe that is why he was trying to marry her off to his brother, as a way to secure that his heirs would take the throne.

Clever. Maybe a bit too clever for Segundus.

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