A Crane Among Wolves

by June Hur

Let the king, and the king alone, carry the weight of all his crimes. Do not fall victim to the king’s games. He enjoys—nay, he needs—to set people against one another, to set people up against their own selves.” He glanced down at his reflection in the tea. “He encourages the monstrosity in others to justify his own.”

Life has been and will always be painful and lonely, and the only way to make this life endurable is that we all work together, for each other.