Athan sat in his room, quiet and calm, he hadn't had much to do here at the conclave meetings mostly because he had not been trusted with any responsibilities, it seemed that all through the period for which the conclave held, all the pair of eyes he had encountered had stared at him in harsh judgment, some even dared to go as far as smiling in mockery of his present situation at the Bloodtooth Castle, he had been effectively ostracised from the inner workings of the ruling family, he couldn't blame them though, he had singlehandedly engineered the mistrust the earned from his siblings and his father alike.
Some part of him wished his father was still around and running the Bloodtooth family, for some reasons, he felt his father would be much easier influenced than his brother Marcus, Mar
