Rise of a Legend
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Chapter 21
Orion and his brothers took off for Olhoe two days later. The ride was short, and they were greeted with celebration. Well, Orion was exalted, anyway. The telblecs stared uncertainly at Rick and Joshua as they got off the ship until Orion announced that they were his brothers. Orion briefly explained that he was half lunimorf, and that once he turned twenty, he was going to rule Olhoe and Lunspae, putting an end to the war. After that, Rick and Joshua were greeted with elation along with their brother. The only one who seemed unhappy about their visit was King Frederic. He watched the three boys leave the lunimorf ship, and watched it take off, back to Lunspae. He remembered how his own son had thrown him into the dungeon. Anger at Orion began boiling in King Frederic. Although he knew that Orion was half lunimorf, King Frederic thought that the lunimorves would kill his son as revenge for his escape over seventeen years ago. How was he to know that the lunimorves, especially the same Empress Anita who had left the boy on Olhoe to die as a baby, would love Orion? How did Orion know? Why didn’t Orion understand that King Frederic had only gone to Lunspae to rescue his son? Furious, King Frederic stormed up the stairs and to his rooms to be alone with his thoughts.