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Knighted Again – Ch.18 | KT OLLA

THROUGH their growing years, Zadeque was tutored within the palace as the possible heir of his father…

Maqwela, however, was granted the privilege to travel and train in professional studies. As well as act as the kingdom’s crown prince.

It was a dangerous race their father tossed them to.

Well, Chaka-Hulu had read the older boy before the fight. He’d seen that Zadeque wasn’t interested in the throne…

That what he wanted was being able to roam freely.

Yes, the father knew that what he wanted was freedom. Still he placed a big price on this human thirst.

‘Hold on, my boy,’ he told him one day. ‘You are meant to tour the whole world, but not without power.

‘You are meant to be an emperor. Like the great Chaka of Zulu.

‘So you must hide till I gain more nations beyond our little shores.

‘Then when I fall like all conquerors must do, you will take my throne and rule my empire like Chaka.

‘You wouldn’t have to wait for these!’

Now it was these words that turned Zadeque the fierce fighter. Still he didn’t want to lose his brother and friend.

He didn’t want to lose freedom. Nor lose Maqwela.

But then the king died with his big dreams, too. And the nation looked on to Maqwela to rule the land.

For the crown prince known to the world was Maqwela—nobody heard of a hidden prince.

Zadeque was 25 at the time and Maqwela, 22. They were barely grown for the heavy weight that came on their shoulders.

Now the entirety of Cape Islands was expecting the crown prince to be crowned as king.

But the king’s officials knew about the hidden prince, so they thought to use him to cub the heir.

Therefore the majority of the palace supported the weaker one. It was the man they could easily rule. So they made plans to crown the older boy while the nation thought of Maqwela.

But Crown Prince Maqwela held a lot of power. And he eventually came to reign as the new king of Cape Islands.

The new monarch took on the title of King Maqwela I. He threw in garbage his father’s legacy of the Chaka-Hulu.

Thus the Prince Maqwela became the king, aged 22.

Now King Maqwela I was a sovereign monarch. And he kept the right to officially reveal Prince Zadeque. 

The older one requested that his identity be revealed so he could, at least, lead a free life.

But Maqwela didn’t grant his request. He felt that his freedom would threaten his kingship. He felt Prince Zadeque would fight him for the throne.

So Zadeque would appeal to him, and Maqwela would promise to set him free.

Yet when he slept over the thought, he would return to keep him under lock. He wouldn’t keep his promise to let him go.

But this story was only a bit of the tragedy. So it wasn’t this thing that Maqwela shared with Es and Em.

He told them something else.

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