The king watched everything play out before his eyes, but he said nothing. This was the first time for him to meet with his nephew and he thought, after years of slavery, he would be easy to deal with, since Gerald would have broken him physically and mentally.

And yet, here he was, being so cunning with him. He turned the tables around and used the rules against the king himself.

The fact that they had castrated Mitchell, which rendered him unable to produce an ...