Julian wasn't in the mood to be bothered after arguing with the doctors regarding his brother's care. All the shit about secondary options and potential problems put him in an overly sour mood—the kind the other hardly found himself in. Even in the most suffocating of situations, Julian somehow managed to keep his spirits up. However, nothing he tried worked the same way it used to fix his mood.
Why did Zane refuse to come back to the land of the living? Indeed, all the people should've been fighting the hardest to return. There was far too much at stake for him to give up now! Instances of similar past experiences flashed through Julian's mind as he knocked back the last coffee. This hadn't been the first, tenth, or fiftieth time that Zane had flirted with death. How hard could it have been for him to bounce back again?
