Aloth Lloyd (alothlloyd) wrote in newbritain, @ 2012-01-24 19:15:00 |
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Current mood: | angry |
Entry tags: | when: the reign, where: offworld: manassah, who: aloth, who: anna, who: gahereth |
you know and I know
It was easier when they were all children: he told them what to do and they obeyed. Now they're getting increasingly difficult to manage. Gwalchmai, who was always far and away his favourite, and Anna's son Medraut have already left for New Britain, and Gadriet is thankfully away at the VetAcad (Gadriet especially disappoints him; to have gone from so promising and brilliant to the shifty-eyed addict he is now. Aloth has made it clear to Anna several times that he blames her).
That leaves Geffreyn and Gahereth at home. Geffreyn is a trouble-maker, with no sense of proportion, prone to bouts of rage and completely untrainable. By contrast, Gahereth consistently goes out of his way to be kind to people he has no business paying any attention to in the first place.
Aloth has been disappointed in them for years. Five children with Anna, and the only one who's really turned out the way he'd like is Medraut, who isn't even his. The Estrans' children in Arden have done better, but his hold over them gets more tenuous all the time.
He tends to avoid the two at home -- lately he's taken up more and more of his time with business, so as to avoid his family altogether whenever possible -- but Gahereth's tutor sent him a report earlier that's got to be addressed. So this afternoon he's in his office at the house, drumming a staccato with his stylus while he waits for Gahereth to emerge from whatever charitable endeavour he's been wasting his time with now.
He's five minutes late already. The drumming picks up in speed and volume while Aloth frowns at the door.