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"World domination." He drawled the final accusation in cold amusement. As if introducing the title for a play about to debut.
"Is that how little you think of my ambitions, old friend? Do you take me for your brother pitifully growling to the winds for a crown? Do you take me for Lucien playing the shark among fishes because it is the one and only pond that will give him a throne?
I assure you, my dreams are not as empty, Elijah.
My father owned a dapper piece of headwear. For all the good it did to him in the end. Not one history book remembers his first name after a measly millennium.
As for thrones, I collected some as pleasant mementos. Along with their owners.
Is your understanding that I wish to be a king, Elijah? Kings are my servants. Along with emperors, tzars, presidents and whatever else. They receive their power at my blessing. They find the end of their reign at my choice.
Do you have the faintest clue as to the kind of lofty dreams I would have to abandon in order to be content with something as small as ruling this world?
No, Elijah. I do not wish to do something as trite as dominating it. I wish to create a new one." There was to the glacial coldness of his eyes a meaningful sincerity in the correction.
"Educate me then, sire. Because I find myself sincerely lost." He mused with an implicit sound of mocking entertainment.
"Where does all this moral grandstanding emerge from?
Because the way I see it? Whatever draconian ruthlessness went into my ambitions has never been wasted.
While your own greed resides in... What exactly? Rehabilitating the mangy soul of a brat who is not worth your effort in the first place? Out of...Love? Guilt? And how many have died in these futile efforts?
The way I see it, those wise enough to choose my side have flourished, their own burning dreams granted under my patronage.
The way I see it not even your other siblings have been spared from the cruelty and suffering of your enabling nonsense.
Surely, there is something I am missing.
You have little to worry about, Lijah. It would never occur to me to see us as equals. Even in a field as dreadfully tedious and relative as morality.
I am your superior."
