The king wanted to see them, or at least that was what the guard had told them. For whatever reason, the majesty would be blessing them with his presence; he couldn't have known. After all, they weren't the only human prisoners; heck, there were more humans than any other species in that place.
At least he got to see the many species in this world; he saw dwarfs, lizardmen, and even elves, though they didn't seem so beautiful as he had heard about, maybe because it wasn't a place where being pretty helped.
'I do regret not saving the elf princess of a great elf kingdom when I was a child, so later we became childhood friends... It's something unheard of before. I would have been the first to do so.'
He chuckled to himself, which made the guard leading them to the throne room look back at him as if he were crazy.
"What?" Aether asked, quickly changing his whole mood and frowning.
The guard scoffed before turning away. "Bipolar crazy freak."
