A Title pillaged out of time reaps reward of a different kind. ~Torrance Hill.
Strange it be, even; to the humblest of man standing in the right place of time can be swayed to seize ill-gotten opportunity when a door opens a glee in his eye without considering what consequences waits to come in the future.
So it was with my ancestors casting the line of fate inside a world of unexpected horrors facing them just to maintain this pretended lie upheld before others of status and stature who had been born and accustom to the blood of others fallen behind them.
For my granddad it was a promise of a new life he dreamed to be far better than his own means of surviving. But little did he know the price of his treachery and the secret burden his family name shall measure on the scales of time.