Rose stayed close to LeStat. He enjoyed feeling the other man's fingers running through his hair slowly. He just was looking at the other man's face searchingly. He wanted to see if maybe he was cared about. He listened as he talked. Frowning sadly. "I am the youngest of my siblings. I was not allowed to grow up as a boy. I was too feminine. Father tried to raise me like my brothers but I got hurt to easy. My skin was too soft and apparently I was not boyish enough. So he changed tactics when I was four. Raised me as his daughter not as his son. People back home know I am not a girl but they all love me and treat me as one." He says softly. Looking and him. Hugging him by wrapping his arms around the other man. Sitting on the bed next to LeStat. Feeling safe and understood for once. "Mother got mad at me. Told me I was a freak and no man or woman would ever want me. She told me boys aren't supposed to get periods and start bleeding. That year is when we found out I have the reproduction system of a woman not a man." He was bright red across the cheeks. Listening to him. Nodding his head. "I can understand that." He says softly. "You deserve to. You are a good man once you get past the rough edges." He sighs a bit. He didn't want their family to die out. He wanted them to live on. He lifted his gaze and watched him. "Really?" He says to the first part. Turning beet red. He blinked trying to make sure he heard the guy correctly. He pulls his hand away from his mouth. Sadness filling him as his bright happy look faded when he got up and went away from him. He felt inwardly like he did something wrong. He decided to follow him. He got up and scrambled after him wrapping his arms around LeStat from the front. Standing on tippy toe. Kissing him shyly on the corner of his mouth. Trembling as he wasn't sure how to kiss but figured that was a good compromise between lips and cheek. "I am falling for you...." he says softly and shyly.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Ethan moved his pawn on the left side of the queen up two spaces. Looking at him and nodded his head. "Yeah. That is very true." he says softly. Chuckling a bit. "I think with Rose he will learn you can't have everything the way you want it. Rose is a very independent minded person. He is really lonely inside though. From what I learned his mother has him thinking he is some sort of mutant. I can't tell you why I was sworn to secrecy. He is just different...in a good way. He just sees it as a bad thing right now." He hinted yet said nothing outwardly telling. He looked at the maid. "Why do you say I look like this master of the guards?" He asks in honest confusion. Hoping the maid could tell him. "Can't remember my father clearly. I don't remember my mother at all." He says softly. Wondering if she held a couple of keys to a mystery he had never solved.</span>