Their encounter had been nothing more than an accident, a brief intersection of two lives that were never meant to meet again.
Yet, ever since that day, something had quietly changed. Every so often, without any apparent reason, Kael would find himself craving that peculiar bitterness.
Looking back now, Kael couldn't help but wonder if that chance encounter had been the beginning of everything.
Perhaps it was that very coincidence that became the catalyst for the strange entanglement that followed, quietly binding their fates together in ways neither of them could have foreseen.
His curiosity, though slight, was enough to prompt an investigation.
He did not rely on idle gossip circulating through the palace. Rumors were, at best, fragments of the truth, and at worst, complete fabrica
