[January 1. Sunday. 4:43] Kael walked listlessly, having no aim where or whom he should go to. He didn’t know what to do. Not at all. Everything happened so suddenly that he hadn’t had any time to think. And now that everything went back into silence he was finally left with his thoughts, which were no harsher than the whispers of the townspeople and his father. He sat on a pavement a few blocks away from the crowd, and no more voices of judgement followed him. He was silent as he kneaded his hair and attempted reorganise his thoughts into a thread of complete sentences. It turned out that Karlos actually knew about his relationship with Arthur. Ah. He didn’t understand at all. What event happened for this fiasco to even be set on wheels? He was confused and frustrated. He knew he’d

