He had all his mother's retainers executed for daring to allow an assassin to slip in unseen and murder the Lady Seraphi Abrasax.
He comforted his sister, who sobbed theatrically and almost managed to hide her smile as he handed her the inheritance sheave. He endured Titus' sentimental monologues for as long as he could, before sending him off with a box of mother's lesser jewellery and hairpins to eulogise over.
He conducted interview after interview with the press expressing his sorrow, his grief and his determination to bring Abrasax Industries out of this terrible catastrophe and into new prosperity.
His sister had a statue made, an eerie shrine with a million candles and a team of retainers all to itself.
His brother commissioned all kinds of poetry and drank himself into a stupor every night for fifteen years.
Balem Abrasax stood in the Observation Deck of his Inspection Ship and looked out on a little blue planet not too far from his refinery on Jupiter. Earth.
Oh, all the things that humans do,
To leave behind a little proof,
But the only thing that doesn't die is love, love, love.
-Marina and the Diamonds
