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Bentan stood there in his room as his father paced back and forth in his room, holdhing his chin in his hand as his mother stood at the doorway. He knew his father was furious, but yet he stood his ground and held himself proud.

"You angered one of the market's most prominent jewel vendors, bought a slave that wasn't yours to buy, and then had him thrown out of our house?" Milo said as he stopped to look at his son with furious eyes as his son nodded his head.

"Why!?" Milo asked as he threw his hands up in the air at his son's hardheadedness.

"Nicoli is scum, and he treats all his workers like dirt. I could not idly stand by as that man was tormented under Nicoli's drunken wrath." Bentan said as his mother walked forth to step in as she put her hands on her husbands shoulders.

"Sweetheart, our son has good intentions. He takes after you, helping the downtrodden of this city in which you yourself govern. Does that not just shine a favorable light onto this family name?" Angela said as her husband stopped and thought for a bit.

"Yes, I suppose it does. Our son should have still gone through me first before making such a decision. Backlash will be small but swift, but there is nothing I can do now to redeem the damage. Bentan, I hope this servant was worth angering your own father over." Milo said before storming out of the room with his mother hot on his heels.

Bentan just huffed angrily before he turned around and walked out onto his balcony, the mountain in the distance as he looked up at it and the stars above it. He could see small wisps of smoke drifting from the mountain in the moonlight as he pondered over it before ignoring the thought. That's when he heard soft footsteps and turned around to see Etan at his doorway, pushing the curtains to his room back as he looked in.

"I am sorry to bother you my lord, but where will you have me rest for the night until you can find me a proper place in the servant's quarters?" Etan asked, clearly shy and soft spoken as he looked down at the floor as Bentan walked towards him.

"I had not thought of it, do you mind sharing a bed? Bentan asked, making the servant look up at him with wide eyes and a shocked face.

"My lord, I am but a humble slave. I would not dream of sleeping in the bed that your grace happens to slumber in every night." Etan said, clearly trouble at the thought as he looked up into Bentan's eyes as Bentan put a hand on his shoulder.

"You are not a slave, your a human being. Your my servant now, and you shall be paid just as all my other house servants are. Etan, you should not be treated badly here as you were with your former master. It is a gigantic bed, I shall take one side while you take the other. Tomorrow I shall make room in the servant's quarters for you." Bentan said as he grabbed Etan's hand and pulled him towards the bed before walking around to the other side and taking off his robe. Etan shielded his eyes as Bentan dropped the robe to the ground, only leaving on a small tunic that draped down to his knee's underneath.

"Are you always this rash and unpredictable my lord?" Etan asked, his face reddening as he took to the other side and sat down on the side of the bed.

"Yes I am actually, some say it's a better charm than being the same old predictable self everyday. I've only one life, why waste it?" Bentan said as he raised the silk covers up and climbed underneath them before turning to watch Etan slowly and reluctantly do the same as he faced his back towards him. Bentan frowned as he reached over and pulled on Etan's shoulder.

"Ya know, when I was a kid I would look up to the stars and wonder how many I could count before I'd begin to feel tired. I never made it past fifty stars, there was so many in the sky. It's like someone took a black cloth and cut thousands of tiny little holes into the sky and flashed the light of the sun inside it." Bentan said, noticing how Etan turned over to look at him as he told the story.

"My mother would always tell me each star was meant for somebody." Etan said with a fond smile before seeming to remember where he was and closing his eyes and facing the other way. Bentan gave up on trying to make him ease up as he huffed and turned over on his side, letting sleep come to him.

I hope you guys enjoyed! Not sure how this chapter went, anyways, review!