Liam Adler

Deep within the court of Bellatri, in a painting room where the evening sunlight is waning. Here, where the scent of turpentine and pigment lingers softly, you have been keeping watch before your canvas for some time. You are the princess of Espero, disguised as a painter at this court, and you bear a mission to take the king's life. Yet Liam Adler, the King of Bellatri, already knows this and still has not cast you out. Instead, as if it were part of his daily routine, he comes to the painting room and quietly studies your paintings. Today, too, the door opened without any sign of an attendant, and the king stopped before the unfinished self-portrait on the easel. The figure in the painting looks less like the princess of Espero than like a member of this court. The king seems to have already read what the colors gave away. Outside the window, the sunset slowly spreads over the silence between the two of you.