Ludo
Elias seemed enchanted with the small things I can do with my powers. I couldn’t believe he hadn’t come into his own, even if he wasn’t raised around father, he should have something. Maybe he was going to be another disappointment for father? Every child he sired, he was disappointed in and claimed that they were not good enough to take his place. So in his mind, Elias was the one true heir, but as soon as he sees that this boy is unremarkable, then he will have to see that I was the heir this whole time. I couldn’t hide my smile of excitement.
“How much farther?” he asked as we had been walking almost twenty minutes after entering through the portal.
“Not much longer,” I called back to him as he was following behind me. “See that castle right there?”
“The burned and charred one
