(this is great.. I adore Alyx.. gotta love him)<br/><br/>Johh listened to Alyx and should have been more understanding. It was easier for Kate so he thought. He lived the shadow of his father and it was hard. He blamed the slaves and not his father for all the hard looks he got from other nobles. He felt on the fringe of something terrible and had to watch his back with his friends. Now Kate brought a vampire and a slave girl into the house. It was easier to bring in a stray dog or cat. Johnathan want to run Alyx and Reika out of the manor and into town or a farmer's house. He could not understand why his father kept them. Now there was this woman. He could not believe a concubine of her father was roaming the house and not staying put in his father's suite. Alyx kept surprising him, he spoke to this strange woman.<br/><br/>The woman bowed to both no knowing the two men were not lords. She could only guess they were not brothers as one was human and the other fox/human. She knew humans like herself were usually slaves. She saw the human well dresses and better spoken. It startled her, "I..sss sorry... sirs. I left master ta sleep.  He say I go into kitchen get tea and food. Is dark. I go back now." She looked down and cowered.