Slavery

We all decided to go to the birthday party at house Cynis, with me and Kai going by carriage and the rest of our family going by boat.
 
The party wasn't super exciting at the beginning but they had alcohol which was pretty tasty, probably from house V'neef. Three military men from house Sesus cornered Mishal and Falun from house Cynis cornered Kai, I guess they both wanted them to join their houses since they were free agents at this stage. At the end of the party they had a slave auction, which I left for since slavery is absolutely abhorrent to me. But apparently after I left a slave tried to stab Falun (who was leading the auction) and shouted "For Senebau!"
 
When we left the auction we went down to the docks to wait for Thrudd, Heavens and Kai who stayed behind to watch. We saw the men from house Sesus trying to drown the slave who stabbed Falun. Kai came out and put the slave to sleep so it would appear he had drowned. The men from house Sesus left and we quickly helped the slave out of the water. Kai healed his wounds and we moved him to the boat so he wouldn't be found by people from house Cynis. Thrudd told the servants that he had buried the body of the slave so no one would come asking about the body.
 
I went back in the carriage with Heavens to the Qishi manse, where I met with Aliset. Aliset said that the slave auction was performative for our benefit, seeing what we could stomach, and that it was a game to the people in house Cynis. She invited me to watch the imperial senate, but I had to decline since I want to study at the Heptagram. I stayed for a couple of days at the manse and then went back to the imperial city for our meeting with Tepet Kang and Mae.
 
The dinner was interesting, Kang was very friendly and regaled us of his tales in the north. Apparently they had no luck against the general anathema and his 400,000 troops. Kang was beating himself up about how he could've done more. He seems like a nice guy.
 
I went back to the V'neef manse and rested. We will see what comes in the future. I'm looking forward to getting started at the Heptagram, I'm keen to find out more about Five Days of Darkness and how we can avenge mother. Time will tell.