"A while back I lost a friend Wilder, well I wouldn't say lost, we just stopped talking and the cause of this distance was very complicated. My mother tried to poach him from a place we used to study together".
Of course, Liam couldn't discuss the warhawk academy with an NPC, so he changed the story up a little.
"In trying to poach him from our place of study she used a top secret hidden technique of our faction to lure him in, but this ended up backfiring as she did not properly gauge which length the place of study would go to retain him" Liam shook his head but continuing
"This scandal ended up spreading in our faction and my father, who was one of the leaders of the faction, became a target of ridicule for his enemies