What does a true King look like?

He was not a tall man, though by his build he appeared shorter than he was.  I could not, in surety infer in that moment if I was in fact seeing a man.  His clothes were not expensive.  However, they were the first thing I noticed as he poured forth in that grey light.  The make of them was something I had never met with in my life.  Of a color, they were certain to be akin to the color of dusk, and just as changing.  Perhaps this was a play of the nimbus that engulfed him in my now failing eyes.  Failing with ensconcing guilt, as if I had a forgotten crime or some malady emerging from remission; I couldn’t protect my privacy knowing what this man had sacrificed, his interment as a whole, come to an end.

They were woven all of synthetic wool, fine but not lavish: his clothes, tailored as such I had never seen before.  While I was musing in his glowering ensemble of a light peculiar enough for an entrance, I noticed the contrast of color and shade, as if the real source of the nimbus was the clothes themselves.  I thought absurd of myself for such a ninny of a thought; nevertheless, there it was.  I even traced somewhat of the sunset parting in his eyes.

 

Those eyes, and that mouth suggestive of imperative night, curled (and as I recall I can not award his frown a name) down and yet, beset still by the imperative night I saw with him his firm resolve to step forth.  The light died out from behind him as the oaken door swung shut behind him, yet the idyll of those last glimpses of the strange room behind him lives on now, and in that same moment.  That ephemeral meeting passed into a handshake, his eyes scouring the office for some refuge from his growing terror, and I suggested a glass of wine.

 

“Thank you William, but as yet I have no need to hide, though soon it comes to swearing oaths.”  The other two, lit by my passion to ease this man’s obvious quiver, brought forth into all knowledge and conversation their fervor and arduous zeal for what he could bring, and, I suspect, also selfishly, bring for them, for their gain.