Chapter 046
SEBASTIAN
I returned from the laundry room carrying the basket filled with Adrian and Darius's clothes.
My arms ached from the hours I had spent scrubbing, wringing, and hanging the garments to dry before folding them carefully.
Adrian's clothes had been particularly difficult. They were so dirty, stained with substances I could not quite identify.
His white shirt especially had traces of red that were so hard to wash that I had to stay extra long in the laundry room, scrubbing the fabric until my knuckles were raw.
The stains were strange. They did not look like blood exactly, more like red sand that had been ground into the fabric. I had never seen anything like it before.
I wondered what had caused the stains. "Should I report this strange thing to Darius?" It seem
