Chapter 262 - 255. Yellow Hyacinths
Bassena looked at the guide who walked briskly in front of him. There was pressure on Zein’s every step, trailing leftover anger and new confusion. Enough to make Bassena feel a bit scared.
He wanted to call for the guide, he wanted to hold the clenching fist, he wanted to embrace the tense shoulder. He wanted to soothe that quiet rage and disappointment, and kissed away any discomfort.
But he couldn’t right now.
They were still inside the Temple’s compound, and making intimate skinship would just result in another scandal, another topic for articles that would only add to the headache Zein already had right now.
Bassena was used to a widespread scandal and slander about him, but Zein was new to this side of the world, to this life where he was a public figure and object of interest. Bassena knew that even now, while he was suppressing his emotion, Zein was worried about what today’s event would bring to the guild and the reclamation project.
And as if that wasn’t enough, he suddenly heard a clue about his mother.
While Zein already found his father’s roots, Lucia’s history was still a mystery to him. They knew nothing about her before she met Roan. How she ended up there, where was his family...nothing came up. Her two friends claimed they knew nothing about Lucia before they became housemates, and so far, they didn’t made any response to Zein’s mail.
Even Radia couldn’t find out more, and as he said, he had a limited influence in Northern Alliance. He couldn’t just use his usual way inside this closed-knit, fairly homogenous region.
Unless he risked international conflict, but Zein wasn’t that crazy yet.
He thought it was alright, since he found his father’s trace anyway. But recently, when he was standing in front of the res-zone memorial stone, he was filled with regret for not having his brothers’ remains. It brought his mind toward his mother.
His mother, who disappeared after bringing him to Araka.