Her relatives begin to gather around Henry amidst gossip, while his daughter watches him from afar as soon as his wife's body is buried... Despite this, he appears like a lifeless corpse, not responding to any of them.
"Wait here, I'll get it," Isabella tells her sadly before walking away...In a hurry
Emma, watching with anxious eyes what was happening beside her, whispered to Elizabeth, "He looks very shocked..."
" Yes "
This is what comes out of her...with eyes focused on her father before she continues by murmuring, "and scared." This is the first time in her life she has seen her father so weak, as if he were in a completely different world.
The wind hits her face with utter coldness, the harsh sound of crows rises above her, as if fate is mocking her and her father.
"Excuse me," a sharp voice interrupts the tense atmosphere; it's Jack, standing directly behind them, taking advantage of Isabella's brief absence.
"We want to ask you about a few other things," he says in a steady voice to Elizabeth, who doesn't even blink...
"What exactly?" Emma asks, her voice growing more nervous as she grips her friend's arm even tighter...
"Some questions about what happened," Jack tells her, his face focused solely on Elizabeth.
He seems not to have expected this calm expression before Clara steps in to interrupt him as usual. "Sir, you're really going to ask them?! Isn't this a bad time?! I mean!!" she says, her face very shocked.
This made Jack sigh slowly and wearily, then pull her away, seemingly whispering something to her, most likely scolding her... unaware that Isabella had returned... standing directly behind them both, arms crossed, with Henry at her side... her expression very angry...
This makes Clara jump with a scream, before stifling a gasp of fear as she tries to think of any answer... "It's...it's..."
"We want to review the events with the girls and..." Jack says firmly, his gaze sharp towards Henry, "her father if possible," before placing both hands in his jacket pockets.
It seems he really wants to incur Isabella's wrath today, as she grits her teeth in disbelief.
But before she could hurl some insults at him, Elizabeth's voice behind her quietly interrupted, "Okay." Now everyone's eyes turned to her, even her father's, with his lost eyes that seemed to have been taken by surprise..
"Really?!" Clara and Emma say almost at the same time... while Isabella looks in shock at her niece and says, "What..you sure?!"
Elizabeth's eyes go to her aunt without any kind of trembling before she turns to her father... "Yes... there's nothing to hide, is there, Dad?"
Henry meets his daughter's empty eyes and feels a truly unprecedented sensation, as if the ground is crumbling beneath him, as if he is stepping on eggshells... Is it possible?... He is afraid... Yes, he is... Of his daughter? Perhaps, and perhaps something else... Who knows?
" OK..ay"
He finally says this without taking his eyes off his daughter... but his body language says something else, as he grips his already broken phone so tightly that its broken screen breaks even more...