Hi,@ladolcemusica, thank you for reading my post. :) It's a story to be interpreted by the reader. I mixed in a lot of symbolical references to push certain possibilities, like the clouds are his carpet, so his walking on them is he taking the emperor's road. But also you can't walk on clouds and you'll go below them anyway, but he did step on them before his ultimate death.

Don't worry. Many people think authors have the answers to the questions they create on the readers, but this time I don't, so you can safely create your own answer and it'll be right for you. :P