Absolute control

By taking control of everyone, I could stop the fighting.

Breathe, I commanded my new familiars, and they all took breath, again. My control was simply that absolute, that they could do nothing I didn’t order them to do. None of them had the resistance or mental defenses necessary to deny me.

As it should be. Even if some of these people would one day make it to the Throne, right now, they were all living humans.