[ There's a brief pause as he considers where to begin. ]
Many years ago, when I was still young, I paid a visit to a land whose king had begun to fail.
During my time there, I met his eldest, a youth both kind and fair-minded, who had no wish to assume his father's throne. His younger brother, well-spoken and clever, desired greatly to be king in his brother's stead.
It came to a head, one day, when the king named the eldest his successor. In a fit of jealousy, the younger son arranged an attack on his elder brother. The plan backfired; he was scarred over his left eye, and the elder saved the younger.
The relationship between the two was strained after that, and though they made peace with one another, a seed of bitterness was sown in the scarred brother's heart.
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3/12/12 04:47 (UTC)I do.
[ There's a brief pause as he considers where to begin. ]
Many years ago, when I was still young, I paid a visit to a land whose king had begun to fail.
During my time there, I met his eldest, a youth both kind and fair-minded, who had no wish to assume his father's throne. His younger brother, well-spoken and clever, desired greatly to be king in his brother's stead.
It came to a head, one day, when the king named the eldest his successor. In a fit of jealousy, the younger son arranged an attack on his elder brother. The plan backfired; he was scarred over his left eye, and the elder saved the younger.
The relationship between the two was strained after that, and though they made peace with one another, a seed of bitterness was sown in the scarred brother's heart.