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“I iine you are satisfied with this outcome”

“I’loat, Krush”

“No You're here to keep me nice and safe until I can be executed”

“If you behave yourself, we can see about bathing you”

“I’ll go under the executioner’s blade with the blood ofto me, thank you”

“Krush…” Tyvian has the gall to sigh atso very difficult Does he expect the true king of Megaris to simply submit to imprisonment?

“I a to make this easy for any of you,” I tell him

“I would not expect you to” He opens a latch in the door and pushes a tray of soh it It appears to be entirely empty Then I feel the effects of it He’s unleashed some nanobots on me They have already crawled their tiny and i to consu manner

“You truly cannot let , can you, Tyvian”

“It is best you are clean, sire,” he says “You never knohen you ht need to be presentable”

With that cryptic comment, he leaves

Night falls, or at least, I suppose it does It is hard to tell what time it is while locked in a rock box

Regardless, I a sound heralds a visitor to h the wall Another scuto spend a decade tunneling with my claws

It is Jax

She crouches down in the shadows so as to avoid detection and looks at me with her innocent blue eye I feel an odd sense of peace wash over me When she is near, I am calm

“I am surprised you came, little one”

“Of course I came This is all almost at the end now Can’t you feel it?”

“I have no idea what you mean, human”

She quirks a brow and shakes her head atthementations You turned him into a ball of purple steel wool They think they can stop you fros of your office, but they can’t King isn’t a job It is so in the blood”

“Their blood,” I agree