Chapter 660

• The training of a Grand Ruler was arduous beyond imagining. The most demanding and unforgiving known to their people. Training began at birth and never ended. He was too old for this.
• “I know you may feel your life has reached its twilight. That there is no more strength left in you to start again. But I ask you to reconsider. It may seem that the grief, the long loneliness, have drained you… yet two thousand years is not old. There may yet be another female for you out there. One who is truly compatible, who may walk beside you as you begin again.”
• Oh, how I wish for that. The ache in his chest deepened.