Fifty-six:
Imperator Zale
“You’re lying!” I shouted.
I was in my fathers’ study now. He had calmly told me that Sirena had killed her sister with the help of Antero, and that they had just run off. He was going to have them declared enemies of the state. And he was going to announce that we were going to war with Aurum. “You never wanted to build anything!” I declared. “This was never about peace. This is about your weird agenda to make sure that you rule the world.”
“The world is broken, Zale,” said my father, “it can barely take care of itself. You have nations that would let their citizens go hungry while investing in ridiculous programs like space instead of school and trying to rid homelessness. If the world has one leader, we can pull our resources together. We can make it th
