99 Where Is She? (1/2)

'Even when he's not alive, the old fool keeps on creating trouble.'

Lily was surprised that he actually had the audacity to shamelessly bring this child here, especially if he's the son of Asher.

Dean wanted to take a seat in order to learn much more however there was no seats, leaving him to just stand and awkwardly wait.

She was oblivious to the currently uncomfortable client but gave a mix of emotions to him.

In her eyes was pure anger that Dean didn't understand but also guilt, shortly followed by sadness.

Her aggression was slowly dulled down to calmness that allowed Dean to finally take advantage to start asking some questions.

”How'd he die.”

Lily took a moment and was confused of why Dean asked that question before furrowing her brows.

”He didn't tell you?”

'Oh, boy.'

This left her with a lot of trouble as from the letter and Dean's expressions, it was very unlikely that was even told anything.

One wrong word and it could be the end of her if she had to face this child who was able to bring down an enemy that destroyed his clan.

”Hmmm, would you like to hear the full story?”

Dean was a little excited that he was going to hear a tale to further motivate him and replied

”Yes!”

Rattling her fingers across the now broken table, she began the story

”In the great clan of Zikel, a girl had just recently matured into a lady. She desired to expand their industries instead of just being a clan full of merchants. Given full endorsement by her grandfather, her journey began.”

”Exploring unique viewpoints from jobs such as a janitor to a mercenary, allowed her to broaden her horizon. However a strange thing happened, every time she participated in a new job, there was always a man who would meet her.”

”She placed her hopes that it was 'fate' and 'destiny' which caused her to slowly develop feelings for that man to the point where she held his child and visited their clan. Unfortunately, her clan heard news of this and brought her back.”

Dean wanted her to immediately stop the story as many points in the current story raised red flags from a few points.

Lily strangely chose to talk from a third person perspective which shouldn't be used unless she found this person to be distant.

But that would contradict the whole value of this conversation!

Even if he ignored that part, the first segment contained a happy tone showing that she does show concern to what is presumably his mother.

When she introduced the new character, man, which Dean guessed was Asher, why did Lily suddenly have some hostility gathering in her eyes.

It made the matter much more confusing when she mentioned 'fate' and 'destiny' with a slight ironic tone while holding contempt and anger within those eyes.

Dean couldn't outright interrupt her but just continued to listen

”The man was unwilling to let this end without a fight and gathered a force to attack the clan and reclaim his wife. In the end, they all passed away.”

Her eyes reflected fear and it was strange how she couldn't just say 'they died'.