Traumatic flashbacks

"It's my pleasure being an instrument of use to Lord Cassius." Jaeger Nyx bowed in return.

"…" Damon who was standing right beside his father didn't know how to react to any of these.

He has no clue his family were moles in the Synder empire, or at least he hadn't yet come of age to know. What made it even weirder was the way his dad was being so zealous.

His dad's interaction with the late Emperor back then had seemed perfectly normal, but seeing Jaeger's reaction to Blake's Dad made him feel a level of distrust. It wasn't that he had reacted in the wrong way, it just felt alien to him.

'Everything else I have known since remains the same, but…' Having advanced in the art of hiding one's facial expressions, Damon was going through an internal turmoil without anyone noticing.