SHATTERED TIES 6.4

Nimeral had reluctantly accepted the sovereignty of the Empress. There was little Lei Livilan could do against the alliance with Lea Beranta and Turquena. Dannke knocked at Bekwin's room. The young man opened the door and smiled. His face was familiar, but he could not remember where he had seen him before. When he entered his room and looked at all the paintings and canvases, he tied the knot.

"Dannke, it's been a long time. I suppose you know your squire is in captivity."

"That's why I'm here. I brought these documents."

he wanted to give them to him. He refused to take them.

"My father insisted that I come. I admit that being emperor is tempting, but on the brink of a war of extermination, a rebellion of the enslaved species, and so much death, I am somewhat dissuaded. Red is a powerful color, but it can over-saturate the eye. These scrolls, are they what I think they are?"