To our little ones || Aonung x Neteyam

Chapter 37: To provide salvation

(Fixed cus put the same chapter twice. It was five in the morning do not blame me KSJSKAK) 

Neteyam moved the pen along the paper in from of him with heavy-lidded eyes. It was early in the morning, and he had spent the entire night writing letters. It wasn't a difficult task considering that he only required two of them, but what kept him rewriting them over and over was the delicacy of the matter.

He wasn't sure how to address it properly. How to tell his father about his daughter's situation without making him panic or worry, so instead he chose to ask for something much simpler: Information.

Neteyam knew his father had been acquainted with Mister Quarich at some point, and they even made business together that was never carried out due to the outbreak of war.

Or so he thought.

Because after the day Neteyam got to meet Miles Quarich, he couldn't shake the uneasy feeling out of his body. The picture of that man's face had engraved itself in his brain to the point it made him angry just to think about it.

His smiling expression was cold and condescending. So knowing that Neteyam felt hateful for the fact that Miles knew something he didn't, and after hearing about Kiri's engagement he realized he had been played like a fool.

But he would no longer stand idly before the suffering of his family, and this reason was enough for him to sneak to the attic of the house in the middle of the night and without no one knowing he searched between the many boxes full of children torn clothes and broken toys for the one box that contained all the documents that once belonged to his father.

The name Quarich repeated itself in his head like a faraway echo that tried to lure him in, to the point it almost made him hysteric, frustration poisoning him when his hands landed on yet another document that didn't have that last name signed in it.

But finally, at the bottom of the box, there it was. A thick pile of paper with all the information regarding a new business under the name of his father and Mister Quarich.

Neteyam spend hours going through page by page, taking note of every single thing that in his eye looked suspicious or out of place, and by the time he was done, he didn't know if he should feel relieved after finally given an answer after so many years of unresolved questions, or if he should be enraged to finally had discovered the reason for the crumbling of his family financial status.

Expense fraud and embezzlement of funds were written all over the papers, and it all had the Quarich name on it.

The reason why the Sully business fell to instability so quickly, why it lost so much money in so little time. Money that his father could never recover due to being sent to fight in a conflict that was not his.

The loss of those funds had signified the doom of the family business and the breakout of war was the last nail in the coffin.

And the horrible part was that he wouldn't gain anything by telling his sister because he knew her so well he was sure she would only shake her head, claiming that it have been too many years and Miles didn't have any say in his father's actions when he was only a boy back then.

It was an unreasonable thing to say considering that she would be latching onto a family that goes around spitting lies and ruining families to secure their place in society, but Kiri was panicked.

And when his sister was panicked she tended to do things going head first, only seeing what was in front of her and talking herself out of reason to follow through with what she deemed best.

So if Miles was putting a tinted glass, painted with a world of opportunities and endless possibilities before the ugly reality, that was all Kiri was going to see.