Nova Peak It's like an apple of temptation

No, she shouldn't have assumed that he was some kind of white knight that had intentionally left his home. He hadn't stood up to his mother. To that day he remained terrified of her and the power that she seemed so easily to wield. The insanity of the Queen had caused great rifts for hundreds of miles in the kingdom and beyond. Taikon had been powerless to stop it then, and so he had not even bothered to try.
Taikon wished that he could tell her that he had rallied together the dissatisfied and wounded souls. He wished that he had been the one who marched a rebellion upon his own mother. He wished that during the fighting, she had found a way to separate him, and thus exiled him. He wished he could have died a martyr.
But that was not the real story. The martyr in question had been Luciano. Taikon had helped to find him and was the reason he had been executed. Taikon was a coward. He had been exiled for other reasons.
It doesn't matter, he said. It did matter. It was a story that had left a hole in his heart that likely would never heal. I'm just glad to be here with you, now, Taikon followed. It was impossible for him to be angry with her. Takiyok had not meant to pry unnecessarily. He understood the curiosity. She was not trying to harm him.
How is your son? He redirected, making it clear that he would not talk about his exile any longer.