Chapter 76: The Bitter Current
Saryan had been born into a family of power, but power had slipped from his hands before he was even old enough to hold it.
His father was supposed to be the king of the sea…he was proud, bold, and perhaps too reckless. Aurelius, his cousin, had not meant to take everything from him, but that was what happened.
A war had begun when Saryan was still young, a war between bloodlines, and in the end Aurelius's father struck down Saryan's father.
The crown never touched his father's head. It was passed instead into Aurelius's hands.
Saryan grew up with strange voices in his ears.
They told him about the betrayal, of injustice, of a throne that should have been his. He was not cruel in those early years.
He was not even ambitious. He was a child who only wanted his father to come home. But his father never came.
