(Seth's POV)

For unknown reasons, I could not sleep at all. My mind felt uneasy, and my body felt wide awake. I tossed and turned, before finally deciding to walk until I grew tired.

I left my room, into the halls dimly lit by the moon. I quietly walked observing everything around me, as if seeing these uselessly decorated halls would tire me out.

I was mindlessly walking, until muffled voices coming from the garden room caught my attention. I knew those voices, besides no one would enter the garden room a this time of the night unless it was father or Ethan. The voices were barely audible from where I stood, so I crept closer to hear the conversation.

"...ick."

"I know, I know."

"I get why you let her do as she wishes now, but what about before... before all of this?"

"That's for-"

"NO! I've been left in the dark about all of this... I,I can't not know anymore."

"Alright... Sigh. When she was younger, after her mother died, and you and Seth were still at the boarding school... I left her in the care of her nanny. I did not know how to care for a child... especially a girl. I got reports on her well being and saw her during every meal. I assumed she was healthy and fine."

"And?"

"I thought she was fine until... she ran away."

"Ran away?"

"Yes, it seemed like any kid rebelliously skipping their classes until it was almost sundown and she had not returned or had been found. I went out looking for her, we swept the mansion and the garden but she was nowhere to be found. So I knew the only other place she could run to... the forest."

"Was she there?"

"Well we began to look, I had my best trackers look for her trail. They found it but it led us to..."

"To what?"

"Her blood covered shoes."

I sat there dumbfounded. They also were silent, I knew Ethan had to be as dumbfounded as me. I couldn't grasp what I was hearing but I still listened, waiting for father to start again.

"-and once I made it back, I had Dr. Richard treat Alina. He had said that the injuries that she had suffered was from over time. Her injuries were from a blunt object over a long period of time, and if anything more had happened it would have started to damage the muscle."

"Who did it?"

"The only one with access to her openly was the nanny, she also disappeared the day this all happened. The servants later admitted to witnessing and hearing her do it."

"What about the boy?"

"My knights lost him, he slipped out of their sights."

"How could a little boy shake off multiple trained knights."

"I had some new recruits with me, they were the ones to chase him."

"Still they were trained, a simple boy couldn't shake them."

"I don't know Ethan. I cannot change the past, and Alina refused to talk about him. All she said was that he did not hurt her."

Silence once again reigned over the room. I decided walk away now, I wasn't able to listen to it anymore. It made me sick to my stomach.

The energy I had once felt was now all drained away. I sense of emotional fatigue washed over me. My mind was at it's wits end trying to wrap around what I had just learned.

The sister that I assumed was nothing less than spoiled, had experienced pain that not even most adults suffer. I couldn't imagine Alina going through that alone, having no one to rely on. I could now understand where her resentment had come from.

I made it to my room, it now seemed dark and dreary. Nevertheless, I still made way to my bed. I didn't want to face my new reality... maybe this was all a dream.

I soon fell asleep with those thoughts.

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Sorry that this chapter is a bit short, but at least I'm back.( '́⌣'̀)/(˘̩̩ε˘̩ƪ )

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