"If it is alright with you. I would prefer that you call me Darius and I will call you by your name." The king said and once again the man had managed to take me by surprise.
"You want me to call you by your name?" I
repeated after him to make sure that whatever I had had I had had it correctly. " Why would you want me to call you by your name?"
He smiled, "titles and formal addressing does not matter much to me unless the deserved respect is offered. I am afraid I would have to give you surprises regarding how things are done here in the north."
"Yes, . . . Darius." It was so difficult to call a king by his name. Not even queens got to call their husbands by their names in front of people and here I was calling the king of the north by his name.
If anyone told that to make perhaps an year ago I would faint and laugh at the person and then probably have Estelle get them beheaded.
