[Belos had not cared. At all. Even before he found out the truth, how disposable he was, Belos had always been fine with threats like witch's duels and him being put on the Knee and having to survive his way down.]
[He'd been one of the last to get there, leaves and pine needles stuffed in his clothes, mildly frostbitten, dehydrated because of the effort of thawing snow, shivering, hungry, and injured. But alive.]
[Belos hadn't been proud. He'd criticized him for taking so long and how everyone expected more of him for being his nephew.]
The only people that cared were the scouts and it was only because they were afraid of what Belos would do to them if something happened to his "nephew" on their watch.
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[Belos had not cared. At all. Even before he found out the truth, how disposable he was, Belos had always been fine with threats like witch's duels and him being put on the Knee and having to survive his way down.]
[He'd been one of the last to get there, leaves and pine needles stuffed in his clothes, mildly frostbitten, dehydrated because of the effort of thawing snow, shivering, hungry, and injured. But alive.]
[Belos hadn't been proud. He'd criticized him for taking so long and how everyone expected more of him for being his nephew.]
The only people that cared were the scouts and it was only because they were afraid of what Belos would do to them if something happened to his "nephew" on their watch.