Chapter Eight: King Jonny

Long after his roars had echoed throughout the castle, at the break out of his brother and the idiodtic girl, and long after he had promised to hunt them down, Long after he was laying in bed with darkness all around him, king Jonny realized how mistaken he was about his brother and prince Jax and the girl.

When he became king he started to think his brother was after the throne, and that he would be able to get it. Jax had always been better at sword play, his studies, and anything else, he on the other hand was always being chided by his father for seeming weak. Everyday he would remember the thing his father had told him when he was twelve, "Stupid boy, this life is no place for weakness! You're my heir to the throne! Show weakness and your brother will take you down! Show weakness and I'll make him the heir instead!" It made him hurt, but what he wasn't able to realize, his brain always was slower then Jax's also, was that his father was drunk at the time, and had been for a while. Yet now he realized that Jax never seemed to want the throne, he never talked to his buddies about overtaking their father, he tended to become bored in his "How to rule" lessons and never, not once, in two years, had attempted to take the throne from him. Jax was clearly an imbecile.

He also noticed that he had called the girl "Dumb," yet she seemed nothing of the such. She was quick witted and had clearly been surving for a while by herself. Even if Jax had helped her escape, he couldn't have done it all by himself. If she was really smart, she would stick a knife in Jax the minute she got a chance. Maybe he would loosen her sentence a little if she did that for him. With his brother gone, that would be one less worry for him. But he was not fully sure a knife would be stuck and Jax's back, so he rolled over and sat up, knowing he had to do something.

He climbed out of bed and pulled his red silk robe over his nightshirt, then set his golden crown on his head. He had to look presentable for where he was going. Then he snuck out of his room through a hidden passageway and tiptoed down the hall.

Once he was out of the passage room and in the servants quarters, he dashed quietly across the hall to the dungeons, and stepped lightly down the stairs. There was a prisoner he needed to see.