Quietus

Tennex

"Did you hear about the Pitchaqi family?" Kyu hummed from a chair, seemingly randomly placed in the middle of an otherwise empty room, the second Hatch entered.

"Fill me in," Hatch responded in a tone that might have been considered as uninterested to many, but this way Kyu. Kyu was content as long as he received some sort of an answer.

"They're all cursed, the whole lot of'em!" he exclaimed enthusiastically.

Hatch nodded, as if he was listening, while he summoned a table covered in silver platters, topped with food of all kinds.

"Apart from the eldest, I can't seem to remember the name of the guy, he was murdered! Bloody mad, eh?" Kyu scoffed before lifting a goblet from the table and bringing it to his lips.

"Sure, who did it though?" Hatch asked, seating himself and carefully filling a plate with his favorite foods.

"No idea. My bets on Clay," Kyu guessed, nodding to himself.

"Not Kithalyuh?" Tennex asked as he entered the room, pulling a shirt over his toned and honey colored chest.

"The Pitchaqi family are all Qilains. Kithalyuh is the leader of the Qilains. Obviously, it is not Kithalyuh," Kyu explained and rolled his eyes.

"Take it easy on your bother. He's got a few hundred years of knowledge less than us," Hatch softly chuckled and signaled for Tennex to take a seat.

"Our brother, mind you," Kyu responded.

"So, what are we doing today?" Tennex asked as he sat himself down and reached his hand over the table, picking up a bowl of fruit.

"Medelyn told us to stay home and take a break," Kyu answered with a smirk, while he ran his fingers through his golden locks.

"Okay, but what are we doing today. Where are we going?" Tennex asked, even more eager than before.

"I've arranged for a meeting with Laxía, so I for one will not be home." Hatch said with a sweet smile.

"For goodness sake Hatch, stop being so in love," Kyu scoffed, while attempting to untangle parts of his hair that had gotten stuck in his rings.

"Kyu, brother, where are we going?" Tennex asked a third time, giving his older brother his full attention.

"I'm off to the White Kingdom," Kyu said, "you're welcome to join as long as you don't get in the way of my work," he continued with a wink.

"For goodness sake Kyu, stop being so in love," Hatch mimicked and Kyu laughed. "In love? I'm sure I don't quite understand the meaning of that word." He continued. "But I am eager for some intense royal-skin-contact," Kyu laughed wholeheartedly.

Tennex shuddered, "you guys are awful," he stated.

Kyu and Hatch looked at him sternly, making Tennex think he was in actual trouble, before they both broke out laughing.

"Of course, we are," Kyu stated.

"We're warlocks," Hatch continued, raising an eyebrow in a cocky display of arrogance.

Kyu chuckled at Tennex's disgusted facial expression and threw a platter at his head with the flick of his wrist. Tennex crossed his arms in front of his face, stopping it midair. It hovered in front of his tense arms for a few seconds before he threw it back. It passed Kyu and crashed into the wall behind him. Kyu grinned, "eat up brother, we'll be leaving shortly."

They continued the meal in silence.

Tennex looked at his brothers in turn. At times it was hard to tell Kyu and Hatch apart, as they were identical twins, but Kyu had recently found joy in metal and stones. Meaning that Kyu, apart from Hatch, had taken a sudden liking in jewelry of various sorts.