happened to you?”
Damien stayed silent.
Could he tell him about Kennedy, the small slip of a girl that had stormed into his life with her empathic tears and unguarded smiles and turned it over on itself?
No, he couldn't. He wouldn't compromise her. If Lilith really wanted her dead, then she had to remain anonymous to as many of them as it was possible.
If the Brethren could ever prove that there was reason enough to doubt his loyalty and standing in their society, not even Buer could stop them from finishing what they had started all those years ago. It would be the end of life as he knew it. His life.
"I would not want to rain on your self-pitying parade, but an envoy came for you whilst you were away." His mentor relented and gestured to a beige envelope that sat on top of some papers on his desk. The blood red wax seal could be seen broken in half, no doubt, by Buer himself.
"Let's have it then, what do they want?" As always, Damien was already used to have him screen all of his communication with the Brethren. It helped him, that way he knew that he could truly trust his thoughts on the most important matters.
"I took the liberty of reading it." Buer said out of courtesy as he handed him the opened envelope. As usual, but he already knew that he didn't mind it at all. He would've told him what it was about anyway, if only to ask for his advice.
Buer recited the first three sentences as he read along, “Assuming that your involvement with the Turpin Shadow has concluded successfully. I – speaking as the sole representative for the Lillake Brethren in this matter – hereby assign you to a new case. This one better suited for one such as you...”
Buer handed him the letter.
Damien gritted his teeth as he read the instructions that were written in the intricate script on the parchment paper. He didn't fail to understand the blatant insult that his half brother made no effort in trying to hide within the missive's contents.
“Now, Damien, hear me out before you go and blow it off at the Circle.” Buer interrupted his ward's murderous thoughts hurriedly.
Damien – who was already shaking – raised his now pitch black eyes to look at the closest thing that he had to a father and already knew what he was going to say...
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