It had taken majority of the day to do so, but I found myself back in my own Kingdom, at my own castle, and I was willing to say that it was beyond difficult for me to come to terms with the fact that I was actually here again. It felt like decades had passed in the time that I had been gone, and there had been nothing that had survived as well as the infrastructure of the castle itself, when in actual fact, I had been gone for no longer than a week.
“Welcome back, your Majesty.”
I was not at all surprised by the trail of servants that awaited me upon my return. I knew that even though I had not alerted anyone to the fact that I was returning, the news would have made it to them before I had time to do so in the first place. Passers by tended to speak to those around the
