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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 22: First assassination attempt on the King

That evening, the servants prepared the banquet hall for their function dinner and served the royal family together. It was the night that the honoured guests were to arrive from the Kingdom of Brogan that Leon had obtained for Acalarah's empire and territory. Meanwhile, the king was in the royal baths in the palace, swimming to work up an appetite for the evening, as he was coming back to normal again. Slowly coming out of his depressive state.

The queen and Radeon and royal officials, welcomed the ambassadors of Brogan and were at the dinner table, eating and drinking together, when the formalities were over, the King enters the room, his presence is enough to bring silence to the room, His head held high, dressed in his royal banquet apparel, wearing his Kingly crown, everyone grasped in the room at Leon's strong presence, the servants bowing to their king along with the officials and guests, showing respect and honour to their King.