The last time I slipped my security, I was five years old. I'd been Emperor for a few months already. They found me sixty seconds later at a wedding reception held in my house for one of my bodyguards. Illyan was furious, and I remember him demanding to know how they'd lost me. My foster-mother came up then and said no one had lost me. It was my home, and if I couldn't wander freely in my home what was my security there for? I was allowed to dance with the bride and eat cream cakes.
[He sips his wine.]
Most kids don't have to fight with an entire branch of the military just to do that, do they?
[It sounds so petty, saying it out loud. And maybe it is. But it's more than freedom. It's freedom to have self-identity.]
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The last time I slipped my security, I was five years old. I'd been Emperor for a few months already. They found me sixty seconds later at a wedding reception held in my house for one of my bodyguards. Illyan was furious, and I remember him demanding to know how they'd lost me. My foster-mother came up then and said no one had lost me. It was my home, and if I couldn't wander freely in my home what was my security there for? I was allowed to dance with the bride and eat cream cakes.
[He sips his wine.]
Most kids don't have to fight with an entire branch of the military just to do that, do they?
[It sounds so petty, saying it out loud. And maybe it is. But it's more than freedom. It's freedom to have self-identity.]