Chapter 10: Archibald
“Who is asking? The head of the family? Or my grandpa?”
“Does it matter?” baldy asked.
Percy shrugged.
“Percy… I am the third head of the House. I’ve been in charge for less than 200 years. Our family has existed for nearly ten times as long.”
This wasn’t exactly news to the young man. He had read about the family’s history. So, he just waited to see what the man was getting at.
“I’m sure you knew most of that already, but what you might have not read about in your books, was that the second head – my great-grandpa – died about 20 years before I advanced to Violet.”
GULP
Percy swallowed a mouthful of saliva. On Remior, a noble House without a Violet core at the helm was like a tasty meal lying on the ground. He could imagine all the alliances, conflicts and betrayals that must have happened during those two decades. They had probably been some of his family’s darkest years.
“Why are you telling me this?”