Everything happened in a flash...

The night before I had had one nice dream that had come to an end in such a rush.

It was a reasuring  dream. I was with Ezio, he was telling me a story about my own life and my bond with Dezierya.

He told me that everyone would love me the next morning.

What a beautiful lie.

Because the next morning I woke up and the whole Dezierya was burning with anger. 

I can't tell anymore if that dream was reality or my reality was the dream itself.

"We don't have time for this!!, everyone out there is just too angry, they are demanding to know where the king is!! AND SO DO I!", said Hatria without further restrainment.

"I've told you already Hatria!, his majesty went on a trip to make a new deal with the neighbouring kingdoms, and he needs more time, so we are going to give him more time. We don't exactly know when he is coming back, but the Liwoon kingdom said..."

"I DON'T CARE WHAT THE LIWOON KINGDOM SAID EZIO!"

In the winter  of my 13th birthday I happened to come across with an unusual conversation between Ezio and Hatria, the two of them were the ones that would always adviced the king in everything. Altough they wouldn't agree most of the time. So the king would always end up listening to Ezio the most.

I heard loud voices while I was passing by, I really wanted to know where were everyone and why they would forget about my birthday. I wanted to make an agry face at them. But what I got instead was the surprise birthday gift of my life.

"Don't you get the situation we are in right now?! Don't you find it suspicious? Why hasn't the king DIRECTLY contacted us in more than one year already?! Even though we are supposed to know everything about the king... WE DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS!"

"Excuse me. Are you insinuating something?", said Ezio with a furious stance.

"What I'm saying Ezio... is that our kingdom is death by now... along with our king".

"What are they saying? Tha-that's, that's not possible, that can't be... father... father is... Dezierya, death?... what is going on..."

I couldn't process what was happening at the time. Hatria had said that the king... my father... was probably death, and that all of the kingdom was doomed without him. She was not that far from the truth. And I was so far from him.

My last family.

Then, after that day, some months passed by, and autumn had come, there still were not news of my father. Dezierya was getting angrier and angrier by the day, and with reason. Their king was nowhere to be found, and they were running out of food, out of clothes, out of water, and out of rules.

Some of them tried to inmigrate to the north, but what they found there, was not a new hope... was more despair...

There was no kingdom that wanted a single Dezierya inmigrant, they started to chase them out, to torture them, to make them their slaves and then sell them on the black market, to hunt them.

And something really fishy was going on... 

Ezio finally opened his eyes, and listened to Hatria. He couldn't hold onto the country anymore, he lost his cold and I got anxious just watching him.

"Cyrus, I need to tell you something important, I think the time has come for you to know this, do you think you can be the strong prince I need you to be?".

In my mind, for months, I had practiced this exact moment just to appear like a real man to Ezio, I wasn't supposed to cry or to shake a muscle of my body. But an irremediable pain pierced my skin. Hearing it directely from the mouth of Ezio made it a reality.

"Cyrus, Cyrus... listen to me... it's ok if you want to cry, it's perfectly fine if you need me to leave you alone, but what you must do from now on... is something extremely radical that we haven't tried up until now... we have run out of options... so you are going to be our last hope, can you do that Cyrus?". He took both of my shoulders and frowned his forehead. He desesperately looked at me. I really was his last hope.

"D-do what?".

"Replace your father. Be the next king how you're supposed to, that's what Dezierya needs right now, they need you Cyrus... I, need you".

"What n-no, I... I can't do something like that".

At least I wished I had refused like that. As if...

"Cyrus?"

"I understand. I'll do it, I'll be the next king of Dezierya".

And I made a decision that I would regret later on.