In absentia lucis, tenebrae vincunt. Betrayal and deceit spread like spilled blood. Slow and steady, saturating everything in its path. Until it spreads no more. I can feel my darkness overshadowing my light. The caress of it consuming me. Breaking me. They say you can only handle a certain amount of pain in one life. That it eventually wraps its sharp claws around you and brings you to your knees. The bond with Colton, Tyler, Hawke and Steele is the only thing that keeps me from spiraling into the vortex of pain that has managed to carve itself into my soul. I don’t just dance around the edges of the Brotherhood anymore. I’m groomed to play their games. Their sinister and dark world opens my eyes to the true evil that has been in front of me this whole time.