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One was just a spark that could cause a wildfire, as his father said. The other was the youngest brother to the king, all the rules and expectations of a royal but the love of no one.

Tacitus was a young man in a world where people must hide what they are, anything not human was simply brushed under the rug. As such, he, and on top of being something already hushed, found himself with a rare genetic mutation that didn't make his life any better. Even after his own mother decided to get rid of him instead of facing society's toils with him. Now, sold as a companion to a noble in a different land far away from where he was born.