[Please, you must accept this]
...
Terra, The Empire, South Ridge Duchy.
Harrison Port, gathering place of the White Folks.
The cemetery.
A short yet sturdily built old man walked along the paths of the graveyard.
Slender raindrops fluttered in the overcast sky; they vanished the moment they landed on people's shoulders, and only after a long, patient soaking would they finally bestow a sense of "dampness."
Elder Pude walked for a while, then slowly came to a halt before an apparently ordinary grave at the side of the cemetery.
"Ernesto, and Evelyn." Gazing at the simple tombstone, he could not help but murmur, "Your child… has truly grown powerful to a degree that even I can hardly imagine."
"I had thought he was the hope of the family's revival, that he could lead us back to the Imperial Capital… but who could have known?"
"He is His Majesty's hidden card, the disciple of the First Knight. He not only leads us back to glory, he even, even…"
