Interlude

Somnus looked upon the photo, glimpsed the face of Allen Dioland, with his friends Aera and Nyx.

Aera was quick to point out how "Adorable" he was.

So this is my nephew, was all he could think in response to the picture. The child was adorable, as she said, possessing features of both his parents, but the resentful brother could see enough of his paternal detracting big brother in the child to see Elric had indeed sired him.

"He certainly looks a little like that jackass in miniature form." Nyx added. "What was Dioland's girl thinking?"

Aera sighed "Nyx…" with some disappointment in her tone.

Nyx's girlfriend was practically wide eyed and lodding praise after praise upon the image of the child.

It annoyed Somnus, though he struggled to understand why. He had his own betrothed, or prospective one, at the very least, so he would have children in his own future. But still the idea of his ungrateful brother having a child vexed him.

Why should he have a child…?

After all his big brother had done. After what happened to Emil. It seemed like a slap in the face of his little brother's memory.

I need a drink…