Aldrick paused his rant abruptly, as soon as Reneé's scream registered in his mind.
'He had never seen her this angry, but why was she the one who was getting angry when he should have been the one to? How could she have been so selfish to have remembered his sister by herself in every lifetime, having met her, spent some amount of time with her while knowing their roots and getting to console each other, but had kept him from everything? Even after knowing that he had not even been able to meet her last time, that he had not been able to chat with her for the last time...before her death.
He remembered how the day had suddenly taken a turn and the storm had arisen, when he had been out, to fetch Ella the ingredients for her first class.'
