Nineveh — 631 BC
The King of Kings was dying. This in itself was no great surprise, as dying was what old men generally did. And had the king been any other old man, his dying might have caused no great disturbance. But he was no ordinary old man. He was the Emperor of the World, Lord of the Four Zones; and rumors of his illness fueled a whispered panic throughout the palace complex.
“Twin sons,” Nura overheard some baron mutter from the other side of. . .