… What of the prince himself? What was he doing while all around him people schemed? The truth was he, too, was plotting. What, I hear you cry, could the soon-to-be-crowned prince have to plot about? He wanted to destroy the entire cloud realm.Ever since he had been a little child, he had been discriminated against by people, from his suicidal parents, through the patronizing oligarchs, down to the disrespectful servants. Only his ogress nurse had cared for him, only she had shown him attention. Certainly, the people loved him, but what did he know of their love? It was a distant, ephemeral idea on the periphery of his mind, unlike the visceral taunts and the cutting attitudes of the men and women who saw him everyday. Now, as the day of his coronation neared, he vowed to punish them all for their contempt.
He had formed the idea from youth, slowly evolving it, tweaking the particulars, and soon it would be put in motion. At the day of the coronation, he would unleash his secret weapon, which he had reared from a foal and turned into a beast solely of pain and fury, like himself. Locked away in the tallest tower of the castle, the creature on which his design rested had grown in spite and malice, only containing its unstoppable fury through its love of knitting, which soothed its soul and quieted its thundering heart. At the coronation, he would release this destructive horse with its anger-management issues upon the kingdom, and just like the Cretan Minotaur, the Nemean Lion, and the Lernaean Hydra, it would wreak havoc and desolation upon the clouds. Then, then they would all regret their words, which had sliced like daggers not only through the strings of his heart, but the tethers of his mind.
Truly, the young prince was utterly insane.
The day of the coronation arrived…
*** any suggestions for the final installment of this mighty piece of soon-to-be classical literature would be much appreciated! ***
Ah sir, I am but newly come to thine installments!
I see a correlation between the ‘utterly insane’ young prince and the “Completely insane” Lord Tartarus. I know not why, but something is telling me to stage a scene between two mentally unstable people and their equally angry – the tiger will be by the end of its rigorous training – animal accomplices.
I see a TIGER-HORSE in your future!
I will say this in all seriousness: if you cave in and give either the prince or Lord Tartartus a redemptive arc, I will comment negatively upon the installment! Keep the insane evil characters insane and evil, please.
DON’T GO ON.
GO BACK WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
THIS IS NOT THE WAY.
TAKE HEED, AND GO NO FURTHER.
BEWARE!
BEWARE!
SOON IT WILL BE TOO LATE.
Oh shut up!
SORRY. JUST DOING MY JOB.
BEWARE, FOR THE–
Just forget it.
OH, PLEASE, I HAVEN’T SAID IT FOR SUCH A LONG TIME.
Oh all right, but don’t expect a big reaction.
NO, NO, NO. OF COURSE NOT.
FOR THE PATH YOU TAKE WILL LEAD TO CERTAIN DESTRUCTION!
THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Surely if there are four parts it becomes a quadrilogy rather than a trilogy.
Aside from that, I am on whatever those hooks are.