Saeil Moonblade

Family Lies- Part 2

It had been a day since Alaris had told him what he’d discovered. It was strange. He really didn’t know what to feel about it. He should feel shocked, angry, sad… right? Instead he felt… confused, he supposed. No… empty. Like he had lost some of his identity.

But had he really?

He never really was a part of that family. He always felt out of place. Tolerated. Like he was just… there. He didn’t fit and always felt like he was cut from a different cloth. And that was because he was.

He had never been told that he had taken after his mother or his father or any of his other family. Never had any of the same interests or talents as them. While he got along fine with Alaris, they were never close. They never had the kind of brotherly bond that people expected, didn’t do a whole lot together.

In some ways, things just made a lot more sense now. It explained how he was so easily cast aside. How they could force him to leave the estate without a single coin, with nothing but the clothes on his back and never check up on him, never send him anything. They were cold people and they felt no obligation to him because he wasn’t really theirs.

Whose was he?  Did it really even matter? It was apparently just another set of people who didn’t want him.

As he sat there, looking at the papers Alaris gave him, he had a thought. He remembered that night when he had left and the weeks and months after that. There was someone that was there, always checking in, giving him what he needed so things wouldn’t get so bad for him. At least, not as bad as they could have been. Why did she do that? He hadn’t thought much of it at the time but now…

Did she know something?

Zelektra,

I need to see you. I know you have a lot to deal with right now as it is but this is important. I found some things out. I’ll be there tomorrow to talk.

-Saeil