Chapter 2: Sebastian
Twenty Years Earlier
Another meeting with future parents. Another feast. All paid for by the future parents. Sebastian snorted. This mission’s nuns were good at that, taking people’s money. Perhaps that was all they were good at.
The dining hall was full of the boys and girls of the orphanage, running around, screaming to each other, sometimes arguing over food. Sebastian peered into the room from the doorway.
Sebastian was very aware of himself. He’d been told he was quite cute with his dark eyes and the dark curly hair framing his fair freckled face. Potential parents lined up to take him, though in the end he would be sent back here again. Not his fault. It was their fault, every time. They just didn’t understand him, and he…he was still searching for the perfec
