Blackfeather Woods life is nothing without the pain

Now, after his siblings had tried explaining to him, and assuring him that Cicero would probably suffer no serious damage from fooling around with toxic plants like this, Damien could only think how on Sithis' name did he not know this had been going on forever? Somehow, Damien felt like he was responsible for his siblings as the older one of them, but slowly he had come to realize that he had literally no control over them, and that feeling unsettled him.

"Make it stop," he ordered, having turned to his sister with harsh eyes. Damien could not just stand there and see his own brother, the only one he really cared about harm himself and do nothing, and neither could Potema. He did not have the knowledge or abilities to do it himself, so the witch would have to obey. His eyes, cold and ruthless, were daring her to refuse carrying out his command.