Chapter 153

The days that followed Kijus's departure were rather surreal. The family simply didn't function the same. Brija was distant, studying the journal full of information Kijus wrote for her like it was a holy book full of salvation. Roi and Jon were having their problems due to Roi taking the training of Silver far more seriously than their relationship. Roi was never present, always gone with Silver. It may have been for the best though. Father had taken his antics to a newer extreme. It was the thursday, two days after Kijus had left the upper ring. I went to the middle lounge of the citadel, simply to get something to eat. My father was sitting in a sectional receiving oral sex from some slave girl he bought. It wasn't out of the normal for him to do this but to do it blatantly in the open... in our home where all could see? Something wasn't right about him. He had become foreign to us all. It caught me by surprise, his gall. It's like he lost all respect for his marriage. Just as I sto