Hidden Faults
“The concert the following night was every bit as good as predicted—a bomb scare in the middle of the show only delayed matters by half an hour, which wasn’t long as such things went—and the audience contained some truly beautiful men which added to my enjoyment. I had to spend the night with Ajeile, but I escaped spending the weekend on account of my mother’s previous command that I catch a rollo to their house out in Zania. I cried off spending both days of the weekend with my parents by claim...ing I had a research paper to review before Gifir and which I’d neglected through my own stupidity.
I couldn’t escape going to Temple with her and my younger sister, Warna, even though my father had somehow managed to excuse himself. I’d sometimes thought of revealing my infertility to my mother as a way of making her give up on trying to turn me into a proper Child of Marra, but given her views, that might have caused her to give up on me altogether. Children of Marra were notorious for shunning anyone who didn’t meet their narrow requirements for sanctity, and Mam was unbalanced enough that I didn’t know if she’d go that far.MoreLess
I couldn’t escape going to Temple with her and my younger sister, Warna, even though my father had somehow managed to excuse himself. I’d sometimes thought of revealing my infertility to my mother as a way of making her give up on trying to turn me into a proper Child of Marra, but given her views, that might have caused her to give up on me altogether. Children of Marra were notorious for shunning anyone who didn’t meet their narrow requirements for sanctity, and Mam was unbalanced enough that I didn’t know if she’d go that far.MoreLess
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