The Persian Boy, Five Things.

[toujours_nigel]

Five Things, to take my mind off stuff:

Zeus and Hera, boy, I’m not going to have you whipped if you stay here.

 

I don’t think you’ve had as good a life as might be assumed, have you?

 

Stop feeding him stories about Persian Great Kings.

 

He does need you.

 

I came for you for my own reasons.

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I have given him what you could not, from pride or from ignorance.

 

He loves me more.

 

Could you be a little less secure, please?

 

You are all as nothing, compared to him, and you are alone among them in knowing that.

 

Your death saddens me, who once desired it.