Chapter 508: The Boulder Crab - Part 6

For the first time since Dominus' death, he realized well and truly just how much he'd missed the man. More reliable than anyone could hope to be. The most solid of bedrocks. How could he not be? He was the strongest man in the entire Stormfront… and now he was mere ashes. There was no one Oliver could confide in about what afflicted him, no one that he could talk to of Ingolsol's curse, or his true past.

Damn it all, the people who surrounded him now didn't even know who he was! They thought him to be a noble! What would they say, when they discovered just how low he'd crawled up from? From the very depths of peasantry, stained by the scent of the manure and all the foul things that clung down there. He was a creature of the pits.