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Nicolas is a bastard.

He's had things figured out for a while. Probably since he first saw Greg. He knew that the man who led the assault on their camp in Zangarmarsh was my brother, but he knew how highly I spoke about Greg, and so he tricked me during the chaos. He pretended to head toward one building and then slunk off to another with my brother.

I…I understand that Greg is an enemy. I do. Really. I understand that he's done a lot of really, really awful things. Things that people have been nice enough not to tell me about.

I admit that I'd been a bit confused about why no one had put together that Greg Ford and Amy Ford were related, but then, there was a Thomas Johnson and an Eriqah Johnson at the base who weren't related at all, so I guess I just thought maybe people thought it was just another coincidence.

It turns out that Nicolas probably talked to them while I was out cold and convinced them that I was a good guy and that there was no need to rant about that evil, dastardly Gregory around me.

…

I'm really upset.

This whole time I've been thinking that maybe Greg really was a good guy, just he was spying or something. This whole time I've sort of been telling myself that it could be worse. People could talk about him like that do Chris, that weasly, pitiful little sociopath who revered the Legion.

But it turns out that they were just holding their tongues.

You see, apparently Greg is the one who reached out to the demons first. It was following his plans that the base was set up. He wasn't so good with the management end of things, though, which is why Jonathan came into play later. But Greg? He was their hunter. The one who searched for innocent people for the Legion. The one who brought them back to that base and tortured them. The one who…

I can't go on.

At least it wasn't just around me that was kept in the dark. Nobody mentioned anything to Neesera or Maevlen, either. They probably figured that those two wouldn't be able to hide the truth from me. They probably couldn't have.

I wish they'd told me. Or even…if they'd told at least Neesera, then maybe she wouldn't have gone with me looking through the buildings. She wouldn't have been there when we finally found where they were keeping him. I wouldn't have had to watch her make the connection that the man who attacked them was the one she was trying to help me save.

I know he's bad, but the way he was screaming…they're killing him for information.

This is the real reason that I've been kept out of all the talks about how to move forward with plans. This is why I've been treated like I was useless. Maybe they were trying to protect me…or just make sure that if I was really a bad guy, too, that I wouldn't get in their way.

They could have told me.

He was screaming.

I'm never gonna get that sound out of my head.

And when I tried to talk to Nicolas about it, about maybe letting me talk to him instead of hurting him, do you know what he said?

"It's nothing he hasn't done to someone else."

Greg is my brother. He couldn't have hurt people like that. It's not true. He was manipulated or tricked or…it can't be true.

And of course it took me and my stupid, slow self a minute to figure out that it wasn't Nicolas torturing him for information because he was standing in front of me while my brother got his bones broken or whatever it is they're doing to him.

No.

That's Brath.

…

I'm sorry, it's just…I can still hear it in my head.

I want it to stop. I want it to stop.

And I heard him laugh.

Brath is having fun killing my brother, inch by inch.

I keep telling myself he's a dragon, so maybe he doesn't think of things the same way, but…that's my brother. He's killing my brother.

I can't do this anymore. I can't work with these people. I know that Greg is bad, but to go behind my back and…

I can't.

Why couldn't Nicolas have found someone else? He has to know what Brath means to me, so why…?

I'm never forgiving him. I hope he dies. I do. I know Greg is bad, but no one deserves that. No one. The way he was screaming… I wouldn't wish that on the demons.

I keep thinking maybe there's something I can do to break him out. But the way they're watching me…like I'm the traitor.

Is it so bad that I want to keep my family safe?

I want things to be different. Something, anything.

I can't take this.

I can't…