Outside the Twin Towers.
It was so quiet you could hear a pin drop. Jed had silently stepped back a few paces, distancing himself from the oppressive atmosphere.
"Miss Eden, was she someone important to you?" Letixia's cherry lips parted slightly as her delicate hands unconsciously gripped her dress.
Xi Mu pondered for a moment and responded off-topic, "I killed her with my own hands and also failed her last request before she died."
Letixia was slightly taken aback, not expecting Ahtal to respond this way. She suddenly didn't know how to react, whether to comfort Ahtal for killing Eden and tell him not to feel guilty, or to blame Ahtal for what he did. From any standpoint, she had no right to speak, as there must be undisclosed secrets involved.
And not having been by Ahtal's side through it all, she had nothing she could say.
