Those words still haunted Mikandra while going down the stairs and into the street.
A stable family. Fancy that. Was there any family in the Endri nobility that was stable? Wherever she looked, there was mess behind a thin veneer of civility. Her own family, the Andrahars, Aunt Amandra and her forbidden lover. Antho Tussamar had to resort to training his nephews as heirs because neither of his sons had children. Calliandra Azthunar was an only child and the sole survivor from her branch of the family. She owned the house and she had probably already put the ownership in the name of her sons in case the Andrahar family exploded and Taerzo had nowhere to go. And that wasn’t even considering the many families who had members who were crazy and addicted, or crazy because they were addicted. N
