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Kassandra stopped the young boy before he left. "Ritic. I will be sending money to help the orphans. There will be staff from my personal panel that will run an orphanage and treat the children right. Ephira will accompany you." She said as she turned to Carmaen who had entered the room. "Carmaen. Show them to the palace gates and then fetch me the house mothers for the orphanages."


The assassin nodded and bowed, showing the other two out.

Ritic didnt mind being followed to his parents house but the first thing he did was pack all of his stuff which was two chinese fighting fans decorated in dragons, his clothes, and small nic nacs like photos and his mothers jewlery box. He doesnt pay any mind to the dried blood stained oak floors, couch beds and walls on the main floor. After all hes been living there as is over 6 years and having grown accustomed to the metallic smell.
"Hey Ephira?" He asks not looking over his shoulder as hes packing the last of his stuff.
"Want to meet Mom and Dad?"

Grinning slightly, Ritic gently took her hand and walked to the back yard to his parents graves. He sighed and his face went to that of a kicked puppy before grabbing flowers to place on their granite head stones.
"Well.... This is my father and mother...." He tries not to spill tears while speaking and he wipes stray tears away by acting his eyes are itchy. Trying to be strong infront of Ephira only to miserably fail at doing so before going into the patio porch to calm himself down.

After ten minuets of bottling in his emotions like he always does he goes back to Ephira with a smile and they both go in to tidy up the place.
About sundown Ritics house smells like bleach and other cleansing chemicals.
"Thank you for helping out." Ritic says with a soft smile having taken the time to get to know Ephira a little better with a round of 20 questions between the two.

Once done with the heavy cleaning Ritic yawns being exhausted.
"Ill show you our guest room ok?" He gives a small smile and then yawns again. After showing Ephira the bedroom he falls asleep in his old bed room and ends up not falling asleep from night terrors. Come around sun rise Ritic has all his things out the door and waits for Ephira to come out.

Kassandra merely sighed and watched the floating chessboard in fornt of her. "You know I have my reasons. Do you question my decision? He interests me. That is all you need to know." She said. She was well aware of the talk going around. "Please. Enlighten me on the news you have heard recently. I don't much care to hear the idle chatter that people are having. Let them talk. I have my reasons."

Ephira hadn't spent the night in the room she was provided. Instead she patrolled the area keeping watch. This boy was getting a lot of unwanted attention. Even if she didn't know what those reasons were yet, it was part of her job to keep him safe for Kassandra. She waited in a near by tree for him to come out. He did finally after several hours. He stood around seeming to be waiting on her, so she jumped from the tree and startled the poor boy. "Sorry, are you ready? Kassandra is waiting and as you will learn she is not a patient queen."

Ephira noticed the sudden change in the way he held himself. She softened. "I don't sleep much so I made sure you were safe all night." She had heard the noises he seemed to make while asleep and every time he made them she ran to check to see if he was ok or if he was being attacked.

"I know you aren't one hundred percent about this whole situation, but it does get easier. I know I have told you about my sister. I must apologize for not being completely honest." she took a breathe "She was given a home because of me. I don't brag or boast about my skill level, but Kassandra had been trying for years to get her hands on me but I always refused. Until the day she found out about Elliana. She threatened her safety, she is half human and so I knew the torture she would endure. So I agreed to be partly hers. It is the only time Kassandra had and has done that to anyone, I made sure that was one of my conditions for agreeing to be hers."

She knew this would probably make him more hesitant but she continued. "Any way, after I started working mainly for Kassandra, Ellianas life had become so wonderful compared to what she had to live with before. She was in a massive and beautiful room, she was warm and she had a good paying job. She made friends easily." She felt tears well up behind her eyes, "I made her have conditions for me working for her, basically I was not going to do everything and anything she would ask of me but I was still hers to order things of. I wouldn't continue my job for her if it meant my sister would have lesser living conditions from when she liked what I did to if she didn't. And lastly I wouldn't do things for Kassandra if it meant killing innocents."

Ephira paused "She has never even hinted at the last one. She is a good kind queen. She seems hard and unfeeling, but it is just the things a queen of our society must deal with on a daily basis that wears her out. She is quite loving and funny once you get to know her." She picked up the remaining items he had with him and started back toward town and the palace.