The Mad Prophet

Once there was a Prince. The Prince was a Fool, and served the King of Fools faithfully and completely, trusting that the King had a plan. One day, a Corruptor came to the King and made him a bet. The Corruptor bet the King a great golden scepter that he could trick the King's most loyal servant, the Prince, into telling a lie—an unthinkable act for such a pious Fool. The King knew his Prince, and knew he would never submit to anything the Corruptor could do to him, and so gave the Corruptor four chances to make the Prince lie. 
The Corruptor went to the Prince and told him, "Tell me a lie, or I will slaughter your livestock." The Prince treasured his cows and sheep, and knew his people needed them to live, but he trusted that the King had a plan, so he refused. The Corruptor smiled, and butchered every last cow and sheep in the Prince's land. The Prince was saddened, but trusted the King had a plan. The Corrutpor returned, and told him, "Tell me a lie, or I will burn your palace." The Prince, still trusting, still adamant, refused, and the Corruptor laughed as the Prince gathered his family and fled his home as it combusted in a great pyroclasm. As the Prince wept, the Corruptor smiled and told him, "Tell me a lie, or I will scour your people with a plague." Through the bitter tears, the Prince angrily refused. He trusted that the King had a plan. And so, the Prince's people fell ill. In a matter of days, most were dead, and the rest in great agony, piling their loved ones with sorrow into mass graves. The Prince cried out in anguish, beseeching the King to enact his plan, to deliver him from this Devil. All he heard in return was the Corruptor, who told him, "Tell me a lie, or I will kill your family." The Prince wanted to relent, he tried with all his might to speak a lie to the Corruptor, but could not bring himself to betray his oath to the King. The Prince closed his eyes, and tried to shut out the screams of his wife and children.
The Corruptor then brought the Prince to the King. "Truly, yours is the most loyal servant I have ever met. You have bested me, King of Fools. Nothing I could do could make the Prince lie. The scepter is yours." With a bow and a grin, the Corruptor gave the King his prize, and left. The Prince fell to his knees, too devastated to even weep. His suffering had been a bet. All his loyalty had earned his King a trinket. The King had only wanted to prove the fealty he inspired. There was no plan. The King tried to apologize, to promise to make things right, but the Prince could only laugh. He laughed, and laughed, his laughter drowned out the King's words, and when it finally died down, the Prince stood up. He gave a final bow to the King, and left his court, never to return.
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