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The soldiers dont mess with damen since he is the direct contact to the Prince.

Laurent and Damen head off to battle. Damen plans on keeping the prince safe

The attempted assassination was plotted by Laurent’s own uncle.

Damen was caught and brought to interrogation for treason. Laurent deems him innocent

There was an assassination attempt on Laurent’s life and Damen was going to be framed for it but Damen stopped them and saved Laurent, despite his repulsion towards the prince.

Damen uses this chance as well to leave

Erasmius is grateful that Laurent was able to give him to the prince of Patron, since their country treat their slaves better. Laurent did this after Damen’s request so I feel like there is a hidden respect or intimacy woven between the atmosphere of their otherwise crude engagement.

Nicaise is sneaky and malicious for being a pet slave. He hates Damen and tried to manipulate situations against him. The thing Damen and Laurent have in common is that they both despise Nicaise. Late we find out Nicaise is the Regent’s pet and the Regent is Laurent’s uncle.

Damen accompanies Laurent at an important meeting. Damen learns facts of what’s happened at his home.

Damen tries to bargain with Laurent for his fellow slaves to be treated better but fails.

Damen was sucked off by another sex slave in front of an audience for Prince Laurent’s amusement.

After whipping Damen, Laurent’e Regent Uncle punishes Laurent by stripping him of certain land for 10 months.

Damen was whipped on a cross by Laurent’s orders.

Damen learns that he was the one that killed Laurents brother back in battle years ago. But Laurent doesn’t know of his identity.

Damen was ordered to over power and fuck a another slave but he declined. He won the fight over another who was going to top him in the slave performance ring

Damen is bathed and prepped for Laurent

Damen is to be the slave of Prince Laurent

Damen is stripped from his royal title and is being sold into slaver by his brother Kastor

Ellis finishes Michaels journey. He travels back to france of Michaels old home where he lived with sunflowers and in that home finds the one photograph of him Annie and Michael. He finally reconciles in the memory of his best friend, lover, and his forever bond he had with all of them

1990- Older Michael sees two men at a restaurant.
“I look at these young men, not in envy but in wonder. It is for them now, the beauty of discovery, the endless moonscape of life unfolding.”

Pas Michael tells G a story about cicadas emerging from the soil every few years. He compares it to the gay community.

“We all had to come out of the dark to sing”

1969-Before they returned home Michael wished they missed the train so their life can be together but that doesnt happen. Those 9 days in France was the only time they were romantically involved and they never let him go. He never loved like that again

Past Michael and Ellis have sex for the first time in their France vacation.

Michael confesses to Chris that his first and only love was and is Ellis. “we had eachother and neither wanted more”

In his journal- Michael describes how he told a dying 21 year old Chris that he thinks love is overrated and this offends him because Chris would’ve reveled in it.

1989 Michael. He has a lover named G has Aids. At the time of this entry Michael is 39 and reflecting on how he use to look.

Modern Ellis’ dad gives him a box from Michael that he didn’t know about. Ellis finally takes out this box at home and goes through the memories. Michael kept all of Ellis’ drawing books and post cards of him and Annie. He also has a notebook labeled 1989. That’s the time they were apart and he chokes up before getting ready to read.

Michael had aids

“And Ellis remembered he would never meet someone like him again”

Past Michael through a celebration getaway for Ellis and Annie.

“Everywhere he went he knew they had gone before”- Ellis