Desire

Alas, the bloodline covenant dictated that the head of the family can never leave the ancestral grounds. I, as Father’s only child, was bound to live the same life that he lived: confined within the perimeter of the family property, watching as his servants and friends left and entered the front gates as they wished. No matter how many magical adventures and scientific inquiry beckoned to me, I would remain a mere observer, researching the familial magical arts from day to day and forcing myself to be satisfied with only books and chats with visitors, through which I would vicariously live a free life.