ARE YOU - Story 7

ARIEN-NA.- ARIEN-NA... -HAVING MY CALLED OUT NAME BEING PERSON I BY THE CLOVE BEING WHILE POUNDED. I DIDN'T KNOW IT COULD FEEL THIS GOOD.

CAN I HEAR SOUND OF THE A LOST CALLING CHILD FOR HIS MOTHER HE CALLS MY IN THE WAY NAME.?

IF ONLY I SHARE WITH COULD YOU... THE PAIN AND YOU CARRY.. SUFFERING SIMEON... 3A=12

SIMEON. LOOKS IT REMEM-YOU TERRI-BLE. BERED, HUH. INSTRUCTIONS IGSA'S MAKE A LARK ON HOW TO DOLL. PROBABLY THESE HANDS BECAUSE ARE MORE DESTRUCTION USED TO CREATION. THAN

THAT'S NOT TRUE. DESTROY-ALWAYS ING IS EASIER. YOU DID WELL NOW. EVEN "LOATHSOME I'M THE ONE DAY, YOU DOESN'T EVEN PRINCE WHO TEACH THE MIGHT EVEN SEE OTHERS CHILDREN HOW AS HUMAN, TO MAKE THEM REMEMBER? YOURSELF... ...SIMEON-HEARD THE YOU'VE WHY DO YOU THEY SAY THE RUMORS, THE REAL YOU PRETEND TO COUNTRY'S TURMOIL HAVEN'T IS KIND.. SOMEONE BE AND THE ONGOING YOU? COMPASSION-DEEPLY EVERYONE HATES? BECAUSE THE WAR ARE ALL ATE. HAS IMPRISONED THE LOATHSOME PRINCE WISE KING.

J WAS DID YOU FUSED. CON-BELIEVE IN THAT? BECAUSE YOU TOO DIFFERENT WERE JUST CHILDHOOD FROM THE FRIEND I ONCE KNEW AS SIMEON... MUSTVE BEEN THE RIOT SIMEON, MISTAKE, SINCE SOME KIND OF PLEASE (LOVES THE EVERYONE THE KING. TALK TO "WISE KING," AFTER ALL. THEY MUST, HAVE SEEK HELP FROM GATHERED TO] SURVIVING THE THE KING FOR LONG WINTER, AND JUST TRYING TO TALK THINGS THROUGH. GREGORIUS LORD SURELY IF IS A MERCIFUL THE WISE KING, THEY JUST MAN. OH, WISE SPOKE WITH WOMAN. HIM, HE'D UNDER-WOULDN'T STAND, HE?

THE ONE WHO THRONE NOW. SITS ON THE CONSUMED BY IS A MAN THE "WISE KING", MADNESS YEARS PRIOR. DIED MANY A FATHER WHO'S OFF FROM THE CUT HIMSELF CLINGING TO PRESENT, MEMORIES OF THE WIFE HE LOST. WELL. MOMENTS WHEN THERE ARE HE REGAINS HIS ONLY FOR A SANITY, BUT LITTLE WHILE SIMEON! WAIT. WHAT TALKING ABOUT..? MOTHER HAD SINCE MY JUST DIED-THERE HIS MAJESTY WERE LEAVING HIS WON'T BE TOMS SYMP-TODAY EITHER, CHAMBERS NOBODY BUT KING... THE WILL HE? NOTICED. LOST HIS HAS SANITY...?

THEY MAY HAVE HELPING IT. ONCE THERE'S NO BEEN A LOVING HAVE TO CARRY AGAIN, WE'LL COUPLE, BUT OUT THE DUTIES STILL.. IN THE KING'S STEAD-MOURNING BUT THE PERIOD HAS LONG SINCE PASSED. MY FATHER, FOR THE FIRST AND SO, THE KING'S GREGORIUS, WORKED WELL FEW YEARS, IT FEARING THE FALLOUT, LOYAL RETAINERS, RULED OVER THIS LAND ENOUGH. HIS DECLINE AND RULE CHOSE TO CONCEAL CONFLICT WAS WHERE IN HIS NAME, UPHOLDING CONSTANT, AND THE IMAGE OF THE PEACE TO IT. BROUGHT THEMSELVES. "WISE KING' IF HIS NOTICED THE NO ONE INFLUENCE WERE REPUTATION AND MADNESS-OR KING'S TO CRUMBLE NOW, THE HIS ABSENCE. KINGDOM WOULD CHAOS ONCE FALL INTO MORE... UNGRATEFUL BUT MY THE LOT OF USURPERS, FATHER... YOU! TRYING TO ARE YOU AND STEAL TIE ME UP THRONE THE FROM ME?! TRAITOR!

WHAT WORTH IS A IT WAS NATURAL. FATHER MY TAKES AND NEVER KING WHO ONLY PURGING BEGAN GIVES? THE LOYAL RETAINERS. BEGAN TO PEOPLE AND THE LORDS OF OUR LAND DRIFT AWAY ARE NOT SO FATHER'S FROM MY FOOLISH AS TO KNEEL BEFORE SIDE. A KING AFTER WITNESSING THAT. THE ONLY ONES NOW, GUARDING THE FOREIGN KING ARE MERCENARIES AND FRESH RECRUITS. BARBARIAN FORCES EVEN AS INVADE THE ROYAL LORDS TURN A DOMAIN, THE BLIND EYE, AS IF THEIR CONCERN IT'S NONE OF NOT THE THEY'RE ..THEN-FAULT OF THE THE "WISE BUT OF THE HATED DRAWN-OUT "LOATH-WAR_ THE WHO'S KING" PRINCE," SOME ENDLESS EXECU-TIONS... LOST HIS SANITY-BUT-

WHY DO CONVINCED HE'S HE'S PLOTTING TO THEY'RE FILLED THERE'S YOU, OF ALL DETHRONE WITH NO WAY PEOPLE, PLUNGE THE HIM AND SUSPICION MY FATHER STILL GO TOWARD LISTEN TO WOULD ALONG WITH FATHER'S YOUR KINGDOM INTO HIS MADNESS?, CHAOS. RETAIN-ERS WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY YOU... YOU'RE RIGHTFUL THE YOU COULD'VE WORKED WITH HEIR. THE RETAINERS THROUGH, AND TALKED IT HAD THE KING PEACEFULLY. STEP DOWN BELIEVED IN I ALSO MY FATHER'S DELUSIONAL WORDS.

MY ROLE, STOLE, AND I KILLED, SUFFERING BROUGHT JUST AS MY FATHER WISHED. BECAUSE 1 IS TO PUNISH THAT WAS BELIEVED THE TRAITORS, KEEP THE THE ONLY LORDS IN CHECK, _PROTECT WAYS TO AND PRESERVE THIS KINGDOM THE KING'S REIGN. BY DOING SO._. I BELIEVING THAT PROTECTING THE WAS ALSO QUIET LIFE OF A WOMAN LIVING IN SMALL WISE THE FOREST. _BY THE TIME I REALIZED MY MADNESS, AND FATHER'S SCORNED ACROSS I WAS ALREADY MISTAKES, MY OWN THE LAND, BRANDED AND KNOWN ONLY AS A SNAKE, THE "LOATHSOME PRINCE."

YOU'VE .BUT AND FROM REACHED THEN ON, YOUR EVERY LIMIT SINGLE DAY.-. NOW, DOING NOTHING _WAS SPENT BUT CRUSHING THE KING'S ENEMIES. RIGHT? IF I WERE TRULY UNDER CONTROL, KEEPING THINGS STILL BE WAR... OR THERE WOULDN'T RAIDS... AND IT WAS BECAUSE I MY FATHER'S WAS IN MOODS SHIFT STATE... THAT AS THE SPRING AS SUDDENLY EXACTLY. MOMENT IN THAT SKIES OVER IVE TIME.. PREYSERI. MOUNT REACHED MY LIMIT. NO MATTER HOW SKIRMISHES I MANY PETTY PUT DOWN WHILE WATCHING FOR OUTBURST. HIS NEXT

WHEN I HEARD "PROPHECY" THE IT FELT-OF THE WISE LIKE I'D ARIENNA, WOMAN FINALLY SAVED. BEEN ...HUH? WINTER "THE HAVE YOU 'KING SHALL FORGOTTEN WHY YOU AND THE DEPART, SOON IMPRISONED WERE, CHERISHES KING WHO IN THE FIRST SPRING WILL PLACE? SUMMON THE WIND INTO BUDDING VALLEY." THE KINGDOM, THIS PROPHECY THIS NESTLED AMONG THAT THIS AND SPEAKS OF GENTLE KING WILL BE A OF A NEW THE BIRTH AND THE ONE HILLS, IS OFTEN JUST GUIDE WISE AND KING, WHO WOULD CALLED "THE SUMMON THE WINDS OF VALLEY." PEOPLE. ISN'T FOR THE REBIRTH INTO THE THAT WHAT IT LAND; THE "KING MEANS? WHO CHERISHES SPRING.

WHEN I IF ALL THE DAYS IT FELT AS HEARD THAT I'D LIVED AS THE PROPHECY, "LOATHSOME FINALLY MEANT PRINCE" HAD SOMETHING. EVERYTHING I'D THAT JUST BEEN TO DONE HADN'T FATHER'S REIGN PROLONG MY IN VAIN-. EVEN WITHOUT SO THAT THE FIGURE BY A REVILED WAIT FOR WAS TO REASON I REMAINED THE COMING THE KING'S THEIR SIDE, OF THE REEKING OF "KING WHO SON ALL BLOOD... CHERISHES THIS TIME SPRING'... AND THEN-UNTIL CONTINUE TO I WOULD COMES WHEN THE DAY UNTIL THE DAY I PROTECT SOMEONE PASS THE ROYAL KINGDOM. THIS TRULY WORTHY OF THE WISE SEAT TO THE WOMAN NEW KING... BESIDE HER-STANDS

SUCH A THING- _ARIEN-NA? I-I JUST. I THAT'S EXPECTED IT, NEVER DIDN'T MEAN NOT... TO DO THAT'S ALL.. THAT... I JUST WANTED EVERYONE TO KEEP BEING NOT THE HAPPY AND ILLNESS, KING'S HEALTHY... NOR THAT "LOATHSOME THE PRINCE" WAS FALSE JUST A FACADE_ WHAT'S ON? WHY GOING ALL OF A DEN_? SUD-OR THAT PROPH-THAT YOU WANT ECY... ARIEN-TO LEAVE BEHIND THE ROYAL ..NO... FAMILY.!

DIVINATION IS A THAT LIE... REGARDLESS CONTENTS OF OF THE IMPRISONED YOU WERE I'M SORRY, I THE PROPHECY, BECAUSE BUT THEN I TRIED TO REMAINS THAT A THE FACT OF THE WAS SUDDENLY TELL YOU BUT! RIOT BROKE RIOT. THROWN INTO WHEN WE OUT. PROPHECY THE PRISON AND MET! EVERYTHING WASN'T THE ITSELF TURNED UPSIDE DOWN_ I-I CRIME JUST.! SIMEON! LORD ARIEN-NA.

INNOCENT, YOU'RE ARIENNA! ACQUIT-TAL! MAJESTY HIS GRANTED HAS PARDON! HER CENT. INNO-HAS BEEN ARIENNA SI. REAL-ACQUIT-LY..? TED! LEAVE I CAN PLACE THIS LET'S ALIVE!? IMMEDIATE-LEAVE LY. SIME• ON... THE ABBESS I'LL TAKE MOTHER'S IS MY YOU TO THE WOMEN'S SHE'LL TAKE SISTER. CONVENT IN EVIAS. GOOD CARE OF YOU. AS...!? E...EVI-

THERE!? WHY BECAUSE OF BUT HE MUSTN'T THIS INCIDENT, YOU TRULY MEAN FIND OUT WHAT HAS LEARNED MY FATHER CAN I NOT GO TO ME. EXISTENCE. OF YOUR HOME? THERE'S NO BY NOW, CASTLE TOWN ONE IN THE THERE'S NO WHO HASN'T TELLING WHEN HEARD OF ANOTHER YOUR UPROAR MIGHT "PROPHECY" I WANT YOU BECAUSE OF BREAK OUT HIDDEN... AT TO STAY IT. LEAST UNTIL SETTLE THINGS DOWN. THIS IS THE ALTHOUGH LONGED FOR MORE THAN ACQUIT-TAL...

SO DOES LEAVING THIS CELL. FILL ME WITH SO MUCH UNEASE? RIGHT NOW, MY (IS GETTING) ONLY PRIORITY LISTEN YOU OUT OF AS QUICKLY AS THIS CASTLE SIMEON, THAT POSSIBLE DIVINATION IT'S WAS... WONDERFUL ARIENNA! I'M NEWS, SO HAPPY FOR YOU! PETE, TELL STABLE-THE AFTER THAT, LIVE FOR READY THE HANDS TO YOURSELF AND THAT'S HORSES. YOURSELF ENOUGH ALONE. ABOUT HUH.? THAT. YES!