chapter 48

Barlion Great...

Tapping my fingers against my right knee, I listened to Uncle Hero go through his daily report without actually listening to what he was saying.

I was too busy trying to ignore the man sitting from across me. My younger brother Victor.

I still find it hard to believe that father let him sit in the council just because he asked to. I had to ask, beg, crawl on my knees and if needed, my chest, to have a seat on the council. And after ten years of begging, father had let me sit in the council at the old age of twenty eight.

But Victor gets to sit on the council just because he suddenly wanted to.

I could feel his green eyes on me but I didn't give him the satisfaction of knowing that his presence did much to upset me.

Victor being allowed in the council chambers means that I have more things to worry about than getting the two remaining votes, like my father possibly handing the throne down to the little brat.

I am in the council as a learning party. I som