The Just Consequence

Fire asks no one's leave, Roderic. If only you had learned that before pleading with gods who never heard your prayers. Look at your kingdom now." A cowardly prince who hid behind his soldiers. A lie hammered into a golden crown. And a single night in the forest that changed the fate of a realm forever. The kingdom believed the tale: that the prince had saved them from the beast, from the villain, from the thing that fed on darkness and spite. He was given the easiest part to play. But every lie carries the seed of its own destruction. Today, the banners of a proud empire are burning. Today, there is only fire, bone, and a blood debt that has come due at last.