TAKA2 -Return to the flames And circle the flames- (17) Kingdom Member only (Patreon)

The memory of his own childhood rose unbidden.

Young Scar had once asked his father, “If Mufasa becomes king… what can I become?”

The answer had been cold and final: “Nothing. You will remain as you are.”

Scar remembered how, long ago, he had always watched from afar as his father and Mufasa gazed up at the stars together.

They had looked as though the stars themselves watched over them. He had wished, more than anything, that he could have stood there with them.