Some minutes pass in silence. "Do you truly care for the citizens of the empire?", whispers the boy. "Would you step aside if we agreed, together, that I would make the better ruler?" He felt absurd asking such a question at his age. But, well, he had just been told by the God-Emporer himself that he was a mage that could one day rival the God-Emporer, in power if not in wisdom.
Awesome. I wanted to leave it ambiguous at the end whether our viewpoint character makes it out or not, but this feels like the start of a thread where they live.
Some minutes pass in silence. "Do you truly care for the citizens of the empire?", whispers the boy. "Would you step aside if we agreed, together, that I would make the better ruler?" He felt absurd asking such a question at his age. But, well, he had just been told by the God-Emporer himself that he was a mage that could one day rival the God-Emporer, in power if not in wisdom.
Awesome. I wanted to leave it ambiguous at the end whether our viewpoint character makes it out or not, but this feels like the start of a thread where they live.
Behind a link for formatting's sake, a continuation to the story: https://ollij.fi/blog/preserve/