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The Kabaka had not slept much since the queen's betrayal. Every dawn found him awake before the drums, staring out across the mist-laden hills of Buganda.
Three options lay before him. It should have been a simple matter of justice — execution, exile, or imprisonment. Yet every time he tried to decide, he saw her smile at their wedding, heard her laughter echo in the halls. The same hands that once held his now bore the blood of betrayal.
He still wore the cut of grief across his heart — but now another shadow gathered on the horizon.
War.
The Kongo rebellion brewed like a thunderstorm, and Buganda could not afford to be paralyzed by sorrow. Each day gave Lumingu and his people the opportunity to grow more powerful. With their growth came Buganda's fall.
