Darkness

No time to play

The sun Burning his shoulders, racing through woods, the wet grass tickling his feet, the sound of the humming birds whistling, the spider feeding, Orfeo was enjoying the sounds, the wind blowing against his face, a year had past and had Orfeo adapted, his new routine with Victoria was harsh, demanding and left no time to play with his brother, Orfeo had found a loop hole, a hole hour he could escape from reality and go into his play, the play were he wasn't a half breed, he wasn't expected to perform as king to be. He knew this was the time were Victoria would be arranging his lessons and other important matters with his farther. 

Chasing Alexander through the woods, listening to his giggles, He knew his hiding place, the same as always, by the banking, a large slop, located by the river, it was his and Alexanders favorite tree, the long hard oak tree with its branches stretched out, to he and his brother they seemed like a giants finger pointing at them, this was Orfeo's happiest place. 

"I'll find you" 

"No you wont, i am too fast"

"When i find you" 

"you'll do what boy" the sturdy, voice made him freeze, standing still, wishing he wasn't there.

"Farther"

"What childish games are playing boy?" his hand held in the middle, he knew punishment was waiting for him, Orfeo knew his farther wouldn't forgive his brother not for this, the king dismissed any vampire from entering the woods, without permission. 

"I was juss"

"That's all i need to hear, you was just dishonoring me and your family, if someone was to see you out here, who was you talking to boy?" 

"Myself farther"

"You talking to your self, if i find your brother out here, i'll"

"No, farther it's just me, i swear, i was being childish and talking to my self" knowing that interrupting the king, even if the king was your farther, interrupting the king was a crime you do not live to tell. 

"How dare you speak over me boy, I am not your farther yet and that still does not excuse you from honour, you know where to go and i expect to see you there, if i have to drag you there my self it will not benefit you" filled with rage, Orfeo knew tonight was the night he missed his studies with his farther's permission. 

"Who was you chasing boy" Turning round to see his farther's back turned away from the oak tree, he knew Alexander would be able to make it back to the secrete door. 

"A deer farther" hanging his head low.

"You was chasing a deer boy!, for your stupidity and insult towards me, tomorrow we will hunt every deer around these woods and you can watch them cry in pain as they die from your hands. 

Nodding his head, Orfeo left for the chamber, not a comfortable room, a room with only one thing. chains, it was the torture chamber, Orfeo had spent most of his youth there, He come to embrace the pain, as he farther cached onto him, he'd changed the punishment each time, for his farther expressed, "If you don't feel the pain, how will i be satisfied" 

stepping into his own personal hell, Orfeo saw the dry blood from a few weeks ago, all the blood was his, his farther  had the chamber made when Orfeo was six, the first time he showed kindness to Martha in public, the punishment was a weeks lashings, the painfulness of the punishment was Martha had to do the lashings. 

Awaiting the arrival of his farther, He knew it would be hours before he arrived, it was to uneasy him and torture prier to his arrival. 

Chains being dragged down the cobbled hall, he knew his farther was here. Walking through the door, his serious face holding no regret, enjoyment showing.