Titania was intrigued. This was something she had never expected to hear and was certainly different from any Royalty she had visited when she had been travelling with her father and mother.
“Tell me more about the King,” she begged.
“I do not want you to become interested in him,” replied Darius, “and then be disappointed. I find him an exceptional person and it’s only because he isolates himself from the ordinary people that I feel he is making a mistake in the way he is reigning Velidos.”
“Have you told the King about your feelings?” enquired Titania.
“I doubt if he would listen to me. He has chosen his way of life and left the Crown Prince to take over many of the duties which should be his.”
Because Titania was very perceptive, she realised from the inflection in Darius’s voice t
