Jack of Harts

Tai built a simulation of the world ten years before the game started, and then inserted the characters me and Red pulled back into the story as “time travelers” from the future. I’ve watched the footage of their arrival in that world. I saw the other king’s surprise at seeing the older him come out of the vortex. And the young woman who was his son’s intended bride. She blocked the traitor’s attack that would have killed her mother and forever traumatized her brother, and then the older king caught and unveiled the traitor for all to see. So everybody would know who had betrayed them all. His chief guardsman. He killed the man a moment later. I had never pulled that man from the game, and when he died, the imperial attack faltered.