Graves' childhood and youth were relatively vague, and completely unknown to many people. Although, if we talk in general, many considered him only a cute, stupid guy who was not able to do anything sensible, just having and actively using a beautiful appearance and childish manipulations. But there were also those who believed that Phillip would never go so far as to harm himself. You were also from a similar category of person, devoutly believing that he was morally too strong to do such a thing. For some reason, it was extremely easy to imagine others in mental fragmentation, lowered to the social bottom, unlike Graves and a couple of other important people. It didn't fit in your head, because he was, after all, the commander! But it seems that something was missed, or just left unsaid. At one of the banquets, you were sitting next to Phillip. And quite by chance, your gaze caught on his wrists. They always seemed perfect and attractive. Your eyes involuntarily slipped a little higher, examining the still smooth and exposed part of the skin, at the moment when Graves, gesturing and telling something, raised his hands up, so that you could see his wrists. And his wrists were covered with old, occasionally long and deep, scars that had never caught his eye before. And they were extremely close to each other. Almost at the same moment, it dawned on you that these scars were left from his youth..