-Ladon-
I knew better than anyone that family didn’t mean undying loyalty. Only Ashes had ever shown me true loyalty. My two older brothers would have had me killed if I couldn’t be converted. My mother might have said she fought for me, but... but we could never go back to the way we were before. She had killed her own grandchild and almost killed Laelia, and she had sided with Laelia’s evil uncle.
No, my family did not deserve undying loyalty, since we just waited for the right moment to stab each other in the back. I couldn’t say I was much better. I shouldn’t have acted out as a child, but I was confused, angry, and a bit self-destructive, and I paid for it.
Now, I did my best to be there for my brother and his family, but there was still this huge distance between us. One I didn’t
