"Do you hear my words? Your brother is dead! Lucas Duncan is dead!" Eijar repeated frantically to Isiah, observing how stunned he appeared upon hearing her claim.
Isiah found himself thoroughly uncertain of how to process the sudden revelation, nor could he comprehend why she had chosen this exact moment to drop such a bomb regarding Lucas.
When he had questioned her about Lucas during their past encounters, she had explicitly claimed total ignorance regarding his ultimate fate, yet she had deliberately withheld the subject until this critical juncture.
"I possess no understanding of why you are playing this game," Isiah replied, his voice fast and sharp. "Yet you should recognize that uttering such claims has zero capacity to wound me. Lucas and I are not brothers in any meaningful sense. I never grew up alongside him. In truth, he existed as a perpetual shadow over my life, lingering everywhere even in his absence. Because of that reality, I am entirely indifferent to his fate."
