63- Leonidas

"Do you think that it is alright to give the Hermes and Hestia Familias such privileges?"

The meeting had ended with Leonidas asking Orion to round up the young males and Artemis Familias that would fight, saying that they would find a way to think of the other Familia women.

"And what exactly are this privileges you speak of?" Leonidas asked. "Food? Their own rights on their own land?"

"Most of the foods and vegetables had been rationed to the Familias," Orion replied, his voice holding no malice but a need to be understood. "So that they would be enough for the Gathering."

The Gathering.

Leonidas had forgotten about that.

"It would be cancelled," Leonidas said with a low sigh. "With the rate at which people are dying, I doubt that all Familias in one place would not lead to a massacre of its own. The food for the Gathering would be allotted to the Hermes and Hestia Familias then, but if need be, we would reach out to our own portion of it. They are doing us a favour that they do not