"The king's birthday celebration is around the corner and he demands that you be there". Earl Brandley worded.
"Father wants me to attend his birthday celebration! Why?...".
It did not sound like him. He can see the royal seal on the letter handed to him, an indisputable sign that it is indeed sent by the king.
He can see that, yet he doubts its authenticity.
For one, his father had never once since his time in the northern palace, he had never called on him much less tell him to attend parties.
Mikeal understands that his father was ashamed of him and of the curse they saw him as. For that reason, he had locked him up in the northern palace with the hope that he would never be shown to the outside world.
Even his banishment to this faraway land could be said to be one of his father's ways of hiding him from others.
