He said his grandfather’s people came from a place across the ocean. A small country, but resourceful. Once, a larger country came in and massacred nearly everyone. But that, that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was that afterward, swords and sickles still drenched in innocent blood, they turned and said they’d done nothing. If the massacre was mentioned, they denied it, and no one was brave enough to argue. Nik Senior said that was true power. Not to kill a man, but to kill a man in front of his family and force them to agree you did not.
