Emma Scherzarko
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316 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
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Now, he was a man of 55, and his island stood taller than any other kingdom in the world.
You could say he was the most powerful man in the world.
You could say that he was the wisest man in the world.
Perhaps even that he was the most beloved.
And yet, a shadow was growing in the mind of the
For you see, this king, this so-called Jack of Knives, he really was as wise as they claimed.
A king in possession of a brain.
I did say this was a time of wonders, did I not?
He understood the limits of his power.
He had built and made and discovered and created so, so much.
He had made himself stand so very tall.
And still, he knew that there were those who could destroy everything he'd made in the blink of an eye.
He knew that somewhere out there, there were our people.
And so, one day, the king called up his best agents, his most accomplished wizards, his most daring huntsmen, and the most devious of his spies.
And he gave them all a mission.
He scattered them to the far corners of the earth and told them not to return to the City of Silence until they had won him an audience with one of our kind.
And, for years, at the start of his day, the king would climb the tallest tower in his keep.
His heart would skip a beat as he caught sight of the horizon.
And it would die, just a little, when he scanned the sky.
For every day he would see the same thing.
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