FuSoYa's Journal - 443 Pass
11th Sun – Time of Long Shadows – 443 Pass
Speculation has come to its end. I have found the proof that was needed to seal my concerns as to my brother’s true origins. Yet, somehow, this only serves to raise more questions and a surfacing bitterness. Perhaps this was the reason the truth has been withheld from me. For despite all told differences – which are far too astounding to deny – KluYa is highly valued here at the Manor. When he first arrived, he was still a boy, and thus a guardian was needed. The High Mysticks chose me, approached me, and informed me that this boy was my younger brother. Even though I did not know of KluYa before my mother’s death, they knew the family tie would be enough for me to agree to take the child under my protection and raise him.
And never a once did I regret doing so.
As he grew, however, it became more and more apparent that there was something about him that transcended the physical stature and power of even the most extraordinary Runnian individual. There is no doubt that his heritage is something frighteningly different.
But it was nothing I could prove. Not until today.
I have within my possession copies of two documents that would be considered pretty much ordinary… except these were withheld from the public in top secret files in the custody of the High Mysticks. What might befall me if it was known that I forcefully searched for these documents, I do not know. Part of me wishes I had never found them.
The only comfort I gained was in learning that KluYa is indeed the child of my own mother. He is by blood my younger brother.
However, the two documents I have obtained are as follows: my father’s Record of Passing and my brother’s Record of Birth. In comparing the two dates on these documents in great detail, there is, without a doubt, no way that KluYa is the child of my own father.
Thus, he is my half-brother.
His father, to this day, remains unrecorded. It seems my mother attempted to maintain an illusion that my father was also his father. It was plausible – but with exact dates for reference, this farce has been exposed.
Whether KluYa knows, I have not determined. I do not have the heart to approach him on the matter. For even if I had found that in these records he was truly not my brother by birth, I could not keep myself from loving him as I always have.
But the questions that this raises are staggering to me.
How could Mother do such a thing in the “loving memory” of Father? Was it something she did of her own free will… and if not… Was this the reason why she attempted to pass KluYa off as the son of my late father? Or… was there some other reason?
Why did the High Mysticks protect this lie?
And most importantly –
What is the truth about my brother?
Who… and what… is he really?
