Once upon a time...

In a Kingdom you have heard of before...

There lived a prince who had a diamond that could foresee into the future. He would look into it's many facets and see what would happen. One day, something terrible happened. A powerful witch, in guise as a peasant selling corn, came to the palace, and placed a spell on the diamond that made it turn opaque. Her spell did not completely stop the prince from seeing what would happen, so he knew when the kingdom would make its final fiasco. And he ran away from it...

Lan's eyes opened and blinked in the bright morning light. He rushed with his clothes, and left the house before his friend even had time to wake up. He walked into the sunrise and kept on walking, leaving the city behind.

"My Brother is a boor. I hate him!" And then, agog, yet frightened of his own idea. Lan turned towards the woods and ran away.

At that exact moment in a castle nearby, there was a man... Well you could call him a man but he was more of a creature. He had killed all of the animals living in the palace a week ago and had started making a foul smelling brew in the deserted castle. If he had been seen in public then he could have passed of as a normal human. His panache was so stunning, that he easily could have been passed off for the king. In fact, to be forthright, he wanted exactly that. The potions that he had been brewing from snake brains and spider venom, were made to create an illusion in the simple minds of the peasants. An illusion that he had worked his entire life to create. Of him with total power...

Lan tripped on a mangled root sticking out of the ground. He was not liking his expedition in the forest as much as he had liked it before. His feet hurt, his hands hurt, he had a head ache. Nothing seemed to be going exactly according to plan. So, Lan lay down and fell asleep...
When Lan awoke the next morning, a doleful sense tingled in the back of his mind. He paid no attention to it and started back for the village. He hoped to reach it before nightfall so that he would not have to stay the night in the forest...
When Lan reached home he saw his brother running towards him.
"Have you heard about the new king? He is the most prodigious king ever!"
Lan had never seen his brother this excited about something so with much forbearance he took him inside and asked him, "What have you been drinking recently?"
"I haven't I'm quite sane!"
"Then what are you talking about?" a completely bewildered Lan asked his older brother.
"As profound as it sounds there is a new king in the palace! Aren't you excited"...

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