From that conversation the night before, life would never be the same for the Vanderverg family. Lwide is sitting outside the house, watching the shy movement of the first locals who come out to clean the car windows. It was a routine that was both mechanical and pleasurable at the same time; everyone there knew each other, and wouldn’t trade that life for anything. Lwide had no more dreams, he knew he would be condemned to live na empty existence. There was na agreement between the order to release him from exile to serve, and that has been the course of his life ever since. If the guardian failed to make the same mistake by getting involved with a protégée, he would be summarily executed at the stake; no one knew about this agreement, not even Tierry.
Once again, Lwide had transgressed
