I am getting concerned and annoyed at Retvik. He has been angry and grumpy. But he has not been taking that anger out on everyone. No, he seems to be taking it out on Ret.

Ret and Retvik have the same birth name. They are both called Retvik Rethianos.

My Retvik is technically Retvik Rethianos the Second, because he’s the second person called Retvik in the Rethianos bloodline. But the Rethianos bloodline, back in our universe, was nearly five thousand years old. Ret is technically Retvik Rethianos the First, because, in his universe, the bloodline traditions hadn’t gone on for as long. But Ret was one of three children, in a bloodline tradition which was only supposed to have two children per generation. He went into exile because of that, and ended up on a completely different path.

My Retvik became a General, waged a war on a god and was a hero and diplomat. Ret was a gladiator. A very good one, but that was mostly it. However, Retvik became a General partly because of his connection to the Rethianos bloodline. Ret on the other hand was actively hindered by the Rethianos bloodline.

The problem is though that Ret is younger, happier and, more importantly, free from the Bloodlines, and became successful in spite of that. Ret is also happily married to my sibling, Kuta, and is considering kids. Despite having been far less successful in his mortal life, despite having been exiled and shunned, despite never having had the fame and power of being a General or even really a captain, despite everything, Ret is happy.

But Retvik is jealous of Ret nonetheless. And the two of them keep on clashing.

The question is, do I intervene when those clashes get physical? I do not know.