Jezebeth's dress swayed, following her graceful form as she moved like a serpent around the handsome dancer. Daliron watched the scene with a cigar pressed to his lips. The sons were busy boasting and arguing like children, leaving him alone with a glass of sour wine. Eventually, his half lidded eyes moved to the servant who seemed to be enjoying the feast as much as him. "Is this the best wine you have, boy?"
The question startled the young elf, as had become a norm in this house - a sudden command where he had been largely left alone. This time however, it was not the Master’s voice that pulled him from his tired daze, but the grim man in the chair in the back.
Endimion bowed to buy himself a moment’s thought.
“Master instructed us to only serve the best summer wine to his esteemed guests.”
It was a textbook reply, if people wrote textbooks about how slaves should speak and behave. He’d had many decades of practice. Even so, the grim man, the Master’s father, he remembered, gave him an uneasy feeling, and Endimion dared not meet his eyes.