My Kingdom Come Book 1: The Saints We See (Complete)

Chapter 30: Lonely

665 standard years after the signing of the Alliance

"This will be your room while you're staying with us." Mikhail said opening the door.

It was a very nice room. It was for sponsors who traveled to visit their chosen slave. Mikhail walked across the room, pulled open the heavy drapes and looked down at the sparkling night view of the city. Mikhail couldn't feel any sort of interest coming from Dachvinder. He turned to look at daem.

Dae stood in the middle of the large room, daer shoulders hunched, daer arms wrapped around daemself.

"You don't like it?"

Dachvinder looked down at the carpet, daer arms tightened around daemself. "It's a very nice room." Dae said softly. The emotion of wretched loneliness that always seemed to be present in daem went up another notch.

"Will you be lonely? Is that it?"

Dachvinder took a step towards Mikhail and stopped, longing was mixed up with daer fear. "I..I always feel lonely."

Mikhail studied them for a moment. "Would you feel better if you were staying on the same floor as the rest of us? I mean, master and his family live on this floor, but they have very different emotions than everyone on my floor."

Dachvinder's eyes brightened. "I could to that?"

Mikhail nodded. "You can stay in my room. I'll share with one of the other boys. I'll just need my room if one of my sponsors comes to visit me."

"Oh...I- could, um." Dachvinder covered daer face. "I'm sorry. I should stay here. I don't want to take your room from you. And...and..."

Mikhail smiled and walked over to daem. He wrapped an arm around daer shoulders. "It's no problem. Come on, I'll show you my room and if you find it as monstrous as I do, you can come back up here for the night. Okay?"

Dachvinder raised daer head, dear shoulders relaxed. "You don't like your room?"

Mikhail laughed. "It's a lovely room and I'm grateful to have it. It's just decorated for my sponsor's taste, not mine."

"What is like to have sponsors? It must be wonderful." Dachvinder's head leaned against Mikhail's shoulder.

Mikhail let out a little huff of amusement as he started up the stairs. "I'm grateful to have them."

"Oh." There was a note of surprise in Dachvinder's voice.

"What about you? I'm sure you've had plenty of admirers."

The immediate change in Dachvinder's emotion and body was startling. Dae stiffened and a cold emptiness emanated from daem. "No."

Mikhail frowned. "How could a beautiful Hosaik like you not have any admirers?"

Shy hopefulness leaked into Mikhail from Dachvinder. "Y-you think I'm...beautiful?"

"You are beautiful." Mikhail answered truthfully.

"Oh." The feeling of shy hopefulness heightened.

Mikhail and Dachvinder made their way down stairs and down the hall to Mikhail's room. Mikhail pushed the door open and Dachvinder let out a breath of awe, delight pulsing out of daem. "Oh, It's so pretty!" Dae slipped out from under Mikhail's arm and spun around in a circle daer eyes bright with excitement. "I love it!"

Mikhail looked around the room. It was decorated in pastel colors. There were large stuffed animals scattered around, and fairy lights strung across the ceiling. He had never appreciated the look before, but now with a with a joyful Dachvinder in it, it seemed perfect.