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Beyond My Knowing, chapter 31

”She… We couldn’t stand against her power.” Artem confessed. ”She felled us both with only a thought.”
”…But… but she gave you back to us? She let you live?” Miteza asked, moving forward towards her son, shaken again at learning how close she may have come to losing him. She may not have had much, if any, joy in her marriage to Tulk, but her role as a mother? She loved her children, all of them, with all her heart. She still believed that she had made… She wouldn’t say it was a good trade, if she were honest, not a wise choice at all on her part to have chosen Tulk for her husband… but it was a trade, a choice, she would make again in a heartbeat if asked. For them.
”She did.” Artem spoke. ”Things… aren’t what I’d thought them to be. Tresit… he…” Artem sighed. ”I’ve come to believe he had just cause… in… in what he did. Father, he… he murdered them. He, Lingen, and Yanjik, they murdered Tarnan, and Ralka.”
Miteza gasped. ”You… know this as sure?” She asked.
Artem nodded. Miteza looked away, shame and guilt flooding through her. She went over to a chair and sat, starting to cry, then to weep. She’d known herself for a fool for not having made a better choice for a husband, but… it seemed, even after all this time, she’d remained wholly ignorant of how very much of a fool he’d truly made of her. Anara… She thought. Anara had been… they’d been friends. She’d raised her son. She’d… she’d been laying with the man who’d… She’d been jealous of her once, though she’d tried not to be. Tarnan had seemed… she’d wished so many times she’d been wise or lucky enough to have been claimed by a man like that. A good man. Even a kind one. And then Anara’s sight had started to fail, and her daughter had been born without it, and Miteza had felt ashamed of those feelings. That shame though, it was nothing… not compared to this. ”How… how could he have done that…?” She asked plaintively. She had never felt truly wretched before, but she felt so now. She felt so now.
Artem got on his knees before her and embraced her and Miteza held her son and let herself cry. ”I… I don’t know, mother. I don’t know…” Artem spoke, his eyes wet, though he hated himself for the weakness. He found himself resenting his father for doing this to them. He… He hadn’t truly let himself think those things until now. Just what it all meant, what it really was… that his father had murdered his own kin, and hidden it from all of them.
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Exceptional dialogue between ARTEM/MITEZA. KES wanting her family safe and ARTEM wanting peace,so onto OCAMPA where they wll have both.Happy for MITEZA/ANARA to embrace with love.THALLA coming or not? will wait on next post.THANKS