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    Beyond My Knowing, chapter 26

    Artem looked at her and shook his head before looking towards Tresit who wouldn’t meet his eyes. Artem laughed just a little. ”You should be ashamed. You’re a coward, Tresit. If you weren’t, you would have fought me fairly and taken the consequences.”

    Tresit turned on him and met his eyes with hardness then. ”Enough.” He told him. ”Your father was a murder and worse. What I did was just.” He told him defiantly.

    Kes could sense doubt cross Artem’s mind. ”I don’t believe you.” He told him, his eyes becoming as hard as Tresit’s.

    ”My brother isn’t a liar!” Lanam told him, coming to her brother’s defense.

    ”…She’s right, he isn’t.” Anara told her nephew. ”Tulk killed my husband, and his own brother.”

    Artem shook his head and was silent. Kes could tell he didn’t want to believe it. ”I can show you the truth. I saw it in Lingen’s mind.” Kes offered softly.

    ”Before you murdered him as well.” Artem accused.

    ”If I show you what I saw in his mind, I don’t think you’ll be able to blame me for that either…” Kes told him in a small voice, not sure how much that was actually true. She knew she’d done what she’d needed to, she just… wished very badly there had been some other way.

    He met Kes’s eyes squarely then, and Kes could see the fear of her he still had. He looked away then. ”Fine. Show me.” He agreed quietly.

    Kes touched his face, tangling her fingers in his hair a little, closing her eyes and showing him Lingen. She felt the shock rattle and thrash through him as he processed the things Kes was showing him. Kes wasn’t at all sure she was doing something that was right. She knew it wasn’t kind of her, that she knew… but she felt he had a right to know. And she felt, if he did know, then he wouldn’t want to kill her son, and, she knew, that might be the biggest reason she was doing this. She felt him still as the memories and impressions seemed to swallow his sense of time and place and carry his mind along with them.

    When she was done, she kept going though… she showed him Tresit, all the times they’d talked, all the kindness and bravery he’d showed for his family. The doubts and self-recrimination he’d expressed to her too. And she showed him Lanam, and showed him Anara telling stories to her children, singing songs with them. All that… All that at least she could say was a kind thing for her to do for him, if perhaps still a selfish one on her part.

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    1. Welcome back,missed readng this story.Now that ARTEM knows and believes what he has seen maybe this will be the beginning of a new life for the four of them,but is this a trick to get them to lower their guard down?KES and ANARA are becoming one person.THANKS for update

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