16 february 2025, @mariannewest's Freewrite Writing Prompt Day 2649: impostor on the throne

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He wasn't inferred to be appear. Not in these robes, not on this position of eminence, and not with the burden of a kingdom bearing down on him. He saw it each time he looked at his claim picture inside the armrest's cleaned gold:

the helplessness, the confusion, the secured up reality.

In show disdain toward of the reality that their eyes passed on a different message, they bowed to him and tended to him as Your Grandness. question. Severely dislike. Fear. Perhaps they didn't know the total truth, but they felt something wasn't right. He faltered in a way that the honest to goodness master would not have. The veritable ruler wouldn't have required to imagine to be beyond any doubt or hone master some time recently the reflect like a tense on-screen character a few time as of late a execution.

The contemplations were louder at night when the regal home was silent. What within the occasion that somebody found? What within the occasion that the murmurs need to be through and through noncompliance? What within the occasion that the true ruler was out there directly, arranging to recoup what was authentically his, storing up an outfitted drive, and cleaning his sword?

Control, he told himself, had a put to those who might hold it. The victor would be recalled in that history rather than the true successor. That he appear make this position of specialist his have. But significant down, he knew:

A position of specialist is because it were as unfaltering as the man who sits on it. Other than, he would persistently feel like a man holding up to be found, without a doubt in case there were a divide of observes at his entryway, people bowing, and orders bearing his title.