Lucien POV With the grace of the stars and Javris breaking more than one law, I managed to get to the party only half an hour late... which was bad because I was expected to be there at least an hour early. Right now my best hope is that the excuse that I was working on the report on the rebels, but I know that no excuse will really help my situation. I grab the flowers Javris ordered for me alongside a paper book back from Earth that I know my mother would love. Mother will not be that angry at me, like always she will be just happy to see me, but father... well, there will be no hiding from his spite. I will pay for being careless, and he will most definitely make my suffering as public as possible, just to ruin me a bit more, to degrade me that much more in the eyes of the public. I

