The Defiant Despot, Chapter 5
Who are Ariel and Noa?
4 min readMar 23, 2024
The leaders were unremarkable but adorable until they were about ten years old. They both acquired speech a little before the usual age and had excellent grades in school. Their maturity rate mimicked each other’s, and they always compared which one was taller. First, it was Noa, then Ariel, back and forth, and by the time they reached their full height, they were about two…