#AtoZChallenge: H for #HostagePrince (with excerpts from Chapter 24)

The Bayangan people call those of Yosua’s community “Tawanan”, which means prisoner, or hostage, because they’d been taken to Maha as captives in the previous war. Sultan Simson specifically took the eldest child of each noble and/or rich merchant family in order to disrupt the social fabric of Bayangan’s society. He’d also taken Garett, the Raja Muda (crown prince) of Bayangan, leaving Garett’s seven-year-old sister, Layla, alive. 

And so Yosua was born in Maha, the child of two Bayangan hostage...