Enough was enough. There was only so much feeling miserable one person could take. It was a vicious cycle he had found himself in, and it was time to get off the crazy train and finally do something for his health. He had to take a stand. He had to do something.

Likais grabbed his bags, looking over his shoulder in to the dark house as his family slept. He did, truly, care for his children. And he did love Sascha as a friend. But he just couldn't deal with this lfiestyle anymore. Yes, he wanted children ... but not like this. Not in what was essentially a marriage. Not a monogamous relationship.

Likais was making himself sick. He knew that Laviticus would understand some day.Though Likais wasn't sure about his daughter ...and certainly knew Sascha would hate him probably for a long time.

After all, Likais was the one who had seduced him. Likais had been his first, and Sascha had hardly been his. The litch never had any plans to settle down. Raise children, yes, but settle?

He was tired of the binge drinking to numb how unhappy he was. He hated the way his son looked at him every time he stumbled home in the mornings from another late night with Aerilon. Laviticus knew. There was no hiding it.

The love just wasn't there anymore, drained out by the circumstances of the relationship. Likais hope was that if he moved out. maybe he could save his and Sascha's relationship. That they could still be friends, like they were before all of this began ...

Sascha had made new friends, had more children ... Likais believed he was strong enough to handle this on his own.

With a deep breath, the litch set down his letter. The letter left behind a lengthy apology, explaining why he had left, that it was nobody's fault but his own, and where his new address was -- at least, hopefully -- until he could find a place of his own.

He just needed to start over with a blank slate. He would stay with Aerilon until he was approved for a new stone, and then find an apartment where he could hopefully teach his dance lessons and raise a new child the way he wanted to. And his life would go back to how he always wanted it to be.

Squeezing the handles of his suit cases, Likais took one more glance around the silent hallway, up at the pictures hanging on the walls, and at the shoes sitting next to him all neatly lined up at the door ... and with one, small breath inwards the litch took a few of the snap shots of him and his family down, tucked it into the outer pocket of his bag before Likais slid through the door and left without a trace of ever having been there.