26- Charilaus

From that day, whenever Charilaus was not learning or sparring, he had Cleon sitting at his feet and staring at him while he read, and though they never spoke when this meetings came, the silence soothed the raging demon in him.

His Caretaker had gotten mad at the closeness but Charilaus had brushed it off, saying that he was not even bound to Renatus as he was not one of them, but a Pashís, so therefore, he could do whatever he wanted, so help the gods.

The elderly man might have gotten upset at the boy challenging him but said nothing, he only ever lost it when Charilaus publicly announced Cleon as his Koinõnos.

"You lay with that boy, don't you?!" His Caretaker had demanded.

Charilaus, thirteen years of age, did not even know how that worked and yet said, "And if I did?"

"All you Diamandis are the same!" The man snapped and walked out of the common room.

It turned out that the reason his Uncle never married was because of the fact that he had a male lover, which was not a crime on