Plain Dealing

Old Aram glanced at Sheyan as he scowled with his raspy voice.

"Do you really think you’re an omniscient god? Kuria possessed the bloodline of the Sun tribe, while Mbenga was an offspring of the Coiled Serpent tribe. Otherwise, without the Gundazan’s ancestral bloodline, albeit not the direct bloodline, how could he occupy that body for so long? As for me….."

Old Aram paused briefly at this point. This pause wasn’t about setting the mood with a change of tone, but it contained a special arrogance; like the clear difference between a monarch and his subject.

"I am....a descendant of the royal nobility of the Ndipaya dynasty!"

"A royal descendant?" Sheyan became slightly distracted, before regaining his senses and mused to himself.