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Literature

The Heir: Prologue

Fatal decision Blood. All he could see was blood and darkness. With every cough the pain increased and his body weakened. He knew he was dying. He had known it for weeks. Just as it's said a wounded animal can feel its end coming, the king had felt this dreadful fate hovering over the mighty castle. The only thing he could be grateful of was that it only took him. Sometimes he could hear vague voices, talking to him or each other. Sometimes he felt someone holding his hand, a woman crying, a young man comforting her, a clear voice of a child, not yet understanding what was happening. Sometimes he wondered if he was just imagining that peop