Brendan reacted to Brennant's acknowledgment only internally, still focused on searching through fragments of memories that he wasn't sure he'd ever accessed. The man's recognition of who he was only made him more certain that he was someone who should be within the core family records.
His mother had identified Brennant as his grandfather's sibling, which helped him find the details left in small things. Anthony Aldrich's sister had been named Cassandra, but the letters A, B, and C were laid out together more than once within images from his grandfather's early years. And there was an example of one of the flaws in the hereditary system that the corporate royals were using, there was no way to pass on memories after conception. He and his father had inherited nothing from the man's later years.
