The First Stone

Dray, the self-proclaimed king, walks through his market square and discovers the crowd no longer scrambles from his path. His armor hangs loose, his gold leaf flakes away, and for the first time in months, a commoner speaks to him without permission. When a washerwoman spits near his boot and asks "the king of what?", he draws his sword—but the silence that follows isn't fear anymore. It's something far more dangerous: indifference. As his blade rises and something strikes his breastplate, the fragile illusion of power begins to shatter in ways that cannot be undone.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.