Vilo was silent before taking a deep breath in. He had to explain, he couldn’t run from it anymore.
“When I was young, my family was happy. My father had been granted the title of noble and..”
It was years ago Vilo remember. His father had became noble, and his mother married him for it. However, as happy as the pain may seemed, late at night the fights would break out.
“Lydia, darling I swear! They are here to protect us!” His father would plead with his wife to see that the council wasn’t the monsters she had thought. “I’m doing this for us, for Vilo!”
But his mother wouldn’t listen. One day, she left for the city. Leaving a busy husband, and her young son alone. That’s when the fire began. Vilo remembered being trapped by the flames, trying to find a way out. Then. Nothing. Until Markus cradling his body, he felt cold, scared. His mother showed up a few minutes later, and a maid, one who took care of Vilo from time to time, ran over before Markus could stop her. That was the first blood Vilo Delandi spilled, Markus having to pull the child off before the maid died.
That was the day Lydia Delandi stared at her own son like he was a monster.
After that, the manor was rebuilt; and Lydia condemned her son to the west wing, in a tiny cramp room chained with a window, letting light in except for one dark corner Vilo would cower in for fear of the pain. She wouldn’t allow him to eat until he was on the brink of death, and no servant was allowed to speak to him.
Vilo didn’t know how long he had been there. It was years, long enough for his mother to start a new family. He could always hear it, and his madness and anger grew.
Finally his mind snapped hearing a baby cry. He was lucky. One of the maids where new. One of them showed pity for him. But it was all to late.
It was on the day of the fire, the twelve year anniversary of the death of Henry Delandi forgotten, and Lydia was celebrating the birth of her new daughter, Rosemary Belina (edited)