Chapter 463: Recollection 1
Late in the afternoon, dust motes drifted in the air as Arthur sat in his throne chair. His head was tilted sideways while resting his jaw against his knuckles, and he was entirely still.
Was he perhaps deep in thought or meditating? No, he was sleeping.
Ever since he’d returned from the past, he had been managing almost everything by himself. And the demands were persistent: days and nights awake, cycling between training, reviewing border security, and signing endless stacks of administrative paperwork.
It was a taxing existence that eventually took its toll on his modified body.
Soon, the doors creaked open as Brie stepped into the hall. She was carrying a thick stack of paper.
"Excuse me, lord Arthur, but I finally finished those research notes in the lab today."
But when she walked down, preparing to deliver her work, she blinked to see him sleeping.
This was the first time she had ever seen him in such a tranquil state. He looked almost normal.
"My lord, are you actually...?" She started to ask but caught herself. In case he truly was resting, the last thing she wanted to do was disturb him. "Wow," she whispered to the empty room. "He really must have done a lot this week."
She stepped quietly to the side of the dais and quietly set the papers down. Then she sat down on the edge of the steps, wrapping her arms around her knees. The silence of the room invited thought as she looked at the man on the throne and began to consider all the things they had gone through.
Brie, as many understood, was the first of his followers that wasn’t an animal.
"A lot of things had happened, huh?" she asked herself softly.