Ula sat down by the table, eating a bowl of soup in silence. The house was eerie with little noise coming except for her sipping the liquid from the bowl. She glanced at Laken, who was just staring at her the entire time, since the entire ordeal from earlier.
"Sweetie, why don't you get some sleep?" She got up, after quickly finishing the bowl, and was prepared to pick him up.
"Where's Pa?" he asked her, surprising her.
Before she could come up with a response, she saw Leon coming out from the hallway and grunted from his throat.
"Kid, why don't you get some sleep right now?" Leon replied back at him.
Ula just stared back at Laken, who didn't say anything but nodded his head slightly. At least she wasn't going to have to answer him, at least yet. She just watched, as Leon helped him out of the seat, before leading him back to her and Ja-, no, just her and Laken's room.
Not a sound came out from the outside, as Ula realized that she was just sipping air, the soup already finished. Oh, she wished that there was still more.
"You alright?" She looked up to see Leon ask her.
"Yeah," she mumbled back, placing the spoon down. "I'm fine. I really am."
"You know what you did today was very hard."
"But I'm just worried for Laken, and without Ja-, him it's just going to be..." She began to sniffle tears and Leon sat next to her.
"Listen, if there's anything else I can do or if-" Leon began to note, moving closer to her.
"I'm not trying to be in a relationship again, especially with what you did to me." Ula shuttered back, touching her wrist, the same area Leon brought pain years ago.
Before he could answer back and not even thinking about that, there was a knock on the door, to which Ula got up to answer. Leon just watched, until he heard her shriek in shock, and rushed up to her. He could see Brat standing behind Hops, who has a thick bandage covering his neck, and Fonda nowhere in sight.
"Where's Fonda!" Ula quickly brought them inside.
"Sh-Sh-" Hops managed to say, before coughing intensely.
"She was knocked out and is in the hospital." Brat managed to say for him, as Ula came back from the kitchen with water once Hops started his fit.
"So why are you guys here in that case?" Leon questioned with curiosity.
"Our apartment complex," Hops managed to say raspy before sipping on more water. "We were attacked, and it got burned down."
"Wait," Ula thought for a second, before connecting the dots, "No, he didn't do it. He couldn't have!"
"Jamal burned it down, didn't he?" Leon finally realized, looking back at all of them, "What a surprise."
"He sure was a surprise after all." another voice spoke, and everyone in the house looked up to see Heskins standing by the door, his left wrist covered in a splint, "I guess this is how you felt Ula, huh?"
"Now's not the time for that. Did Jamal do that to you too?" Ula rushed to check up on him.
"He sure did, but even that's not the main issue. Youden's attacking us with full strength with what it looks like, and there's nothing we can do. The capital's been attacked." Heskins stated, to which he returned to silence. "Whatever happened, you made him so mad that he going to kill Youden, before..."
"He kills himself." Brat finished it for him.
Leon just shook his head, before just walking out of the area and back to the temporary room he was in.
"I caused all of this?" Ula just looked down at the floor with a whimper. "Am I going to be-"
"Ula, you did nothing wrong." Hops were able to say, "He's gone now, and it was up to him to do what he did. None of this was your fault, whatever it was."
"My baby, poor Laken, my baby!" Ula just collapsed onto the ground and began to cry, while Brat was just able to comfort her and give as much support as possible. The situation now was dire, and it would only get worse from here, and this time there would be no help from Jamal.