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Tails of Acalarah - The Young King

This is the story of a King who obtained the throne by his own hands and his own means. fighting war and many battles, but the biggest battle he ever faced was himself. A lover of many women and the Kingdom's known playboy, flirty and confident on the outside, but inside, he was fighting the internal struggles of the darkness raging inside his heart which he battled with anger, hurt, pain, loneliness, evil thoughts which he battled against every day to not give in to desires he fought with, to dealing with betrayal by those within his own family. From being a prince, to now becoming King in his father’s place, King Leon, was his name. His unlikely friendship with a servant by the name of Maia, who is one of the most highest-ranking servants to be close to the King to serve him as he needs and seems to bring some sort of comfort by her presence whenever she is around him. She has a secret that she cannot tell anyone: she is a warrior of the night, serving and protecting the crown in secrecy, along with her selected few servant friends who are faithful to the crown. She is both servant and warrior of the night. The unlikely friendship of a powerful King and his servant leads to a special bond that no one can understand between the two, a bond so close, that cannot be easily broken. This in turn leads to conflicting feelings to develop within the troubled King and this kind-hearted servant, willing to do anything for her King, where a relationship between royalty and servants is forbidden and are banish able from the Kingdom by the laws of Acalarah, even the King himself cannot break the Kingdom's own laws. On the brink of war, through much trial and challenges along the way, will their bond develop into something much deeper than that, than just a servant and King relationship?

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Chapter 65: Where mercy is due

The next day, the judgement hall is prepared outside the palace and to have Tana brought before the entire kingdom to be judged by the king for an attempt on the king's life. "What is the meaning of this, Tana is one of our servants in the palace!?" Radeon questioned in anger against Leon, as he could not believe Tana was an assassin. "She tried to assassinate me last night, at the hands of our lovely step brother." Leon said in a serious tone of voice in the kingly meeting room at the round table, just the both discussed this issue, without the officials or elders. "Her body was poisoned all over, as her body was accustomed to it, so her body was covered with it, the moment it touches the skin of another, the poison slowly gets on the skin of the other individual and gets into the blood stream, causing a slow and painful death. I knew what type of poison it was because when I kissed her, the poison tried to make its way into my blood stream but could not." Leon said sternly.