Twelve:
Imperator Zale
I was back in my room, getting dressed with the help of my butler. Since the tea that afternoon, my thought was filled with nothing but thoughts of Charlotte. She was back and had decided that she was going to be friends with Sirena. It might have been completely innocent, but I knew exactly what Charlotte was like. She did whatever her father wanted to. She wanted to be Queen as badly as he wanted her to be Queen. But the alliance with Aeris was too important to lose. It was one of the few countries left that hadn’t fallen to our power. Without them, they could cause problems for us in our plan to make Aurum an empire.
“Are you alright sir?” my butler, Fredrich, asked as he helped to brush my hair. “You seem tense.”
I frow
