Arthur J. Panoyan

“All you can do is try your best, Isla. And never let your mind convince you that empathy is a mistake, because it will try. If you can face the mirror, look yourself in the eye, and admit that you’re doing everything you can to make the lives of as many people as possible as good as it can...

For seventeen years, Leon lived a sheltered life, on the safe side of the stone wall encircling the Kingdom of Isle, behind the white bricks piled high to make up the castle he called home.

Our next life together, maybe we’ll be farmers. Maybe we’ll be pirates, or bandits. In our next life, we won’t be royalty. We won’t be born and raised in a castle with all its chains. In the next life, we’ll be normal people... We’ll wait for each other there. No matter how long it...