- The Prouds 36
As meetings went on, he felt enraged because he
was not really ruling. He was nothing more than an image
of a king, while the true power was with the guardians.
Despite his young age, he thought like a king, like older
people, especially with the formal, rigid ways with which
his father used to treat him, which made him tough. He was
in great agony. Anyone that has had something, no matter
how simple, taken away will feel furious for being
subjected to its injustice. How then, would someone feel as
if an entire kingdom had been taken away from him and
there was nothing he could do about it? He wished his
father was still alive, so those thieves would not dare steal
his kingdom.
Years went by, and the guardianship council continued
their meetings, which the king only attended in flesh, just
like a statue. During the first three years following his
accession to the throne, the queen kept telling him that he
needed to be strong and act like great kings.
“As soon as you reach the age of twenty, you must
get rid of the guardians and force them to follow your
orders,” she kept reminding him.
She was enraged because she wanted her son to be
the only king. That was because she loved him and knew
that once he took over the kingdom, so would she, and she
would become the supreme authority in the entire kingdom.
The king felt sad and angry because he had to wait a long
time to reach the age of twenty.
Commander Reid kept visiting the king and
expressing his utmost loyalty. It seemed that the king
gradually started to develop a feeling of filiation to the
commander. He felt as if his father’s soul had reincarnated