Alistar left the estate with a complicated mix of guilt and self-pity, knowing that he would never get to enjoy the normal youth that Patricia wanted him to experience. With such thoughts on his mind, he set off for the outskirts of the county, determined to unearth the secret behind the mysterious madman once and for all.
***
"That backstabbing bastard…"
"Who?" asked Alistar, impatient after repeating the same conversations time and time again over the past several hours. "How did this person betray you?"
"Curses…terrible curses…"
Alistar perked up as he finally received a relevant response. At this point in his constant lines of questioning, he'd decided to try to steer the man's memory in another direction.
"Do you know who Dalia Silver is?"
