Thebes

The Plague

There was a plague going around Thebes. When Jocasta and I found out that the only way to stop the plague was to find out who was the killer of the former king Laius. As the king of Thebes, I immediately got on the case. I questioned people, I did my own research. I asked my wife if she knew how Laius had died. She said that Laius had been murdered a while back. I asked her to describe his looks to me. So she did. The way she described him from head to toe made me remember that a couple years back, on my way to Thebes, I had seen a man that looked exactly like that. I thought it was just a coincidence, I didn't really think much of it. Several conversations later Jocasta mentioned that there was a survivor but he had moved away from Thebes because he feared. As a king and leader, I ordered for the survivor to come and be questioned. The survivor came, but what he had to say didn't please me at all, in fact it surprised me. He told me that I had been the one that murdered King Laius. I remembered, that I did kill him and his men but I didn't know that their had been a survivor.