He enjoyed his little jaunts out to the new waters beyond Torchline and exploring new currents, but the weight of duty never kept him away for long. A stolen afternoon. A day or two at most. Then he aquaported back to the City to resume his work as King. A great deal of that work involved hearing problems and finding solutions; or at least, finding people who had the proper experience to find the solution for him.
There was power in the position, but not nearly as much freedom as it had seemed from the outside.
And it was just as much work as he had suspected when he had offered himself up to Safrin's blessing for it.
Nevertheless, in the past year the court and City had begun to function more smoothly with a single guiding fin to cut through the currents and he could take more time now to appreciate the beauty of his home as well as the far waters of Caido once the day's work was done.
The gardens around the palace, for instance, with their ancient and curious statues planted with care amidst the blooming seagrasses. Today he swam slowly among a collection of mythical surface beasts with feathered wings of stone and unlikely amounts of limbs. Gryphons or chimaera, perhaps, though without heads it was difficult to be certain.
Andromeda
There was power in the position, but not nearly as much freedom as it had seemed from the outside.
And it was just as much work as he had suspected when he had offered himself up to Safrin's blessing for it.
Nevertheless, in the past year the court and City had begun to function more smoothly with a single guiding fin to cut through the currents and he could take more time now to appreciate the beauty of his home as well as the far waters of Caido once the day's work was done.
The gardens around the palace, for instance, with their ancient and curious statues planted with care amidst the blooming seagrasses. Today he swam slowly among a collection of mythical surface beasts with feathered wings of stone and unlikely amounts of limbs. Gryphons or chimaera, perhaps, though without heads it was difficult to be certain.
Andromeda
