The news reached Thalis on her sick bed and for what felt like hours but was only a few moments she laid there, unable to even react. Of all that was lost, of all that was buried, this one hurt the most and the elderly woman was left feeling numb.
She thought of the letter her grandfather had sent her, of the will she was tasked to execute and what little strength she had in her left her.
Memories flooded her mind.
Of their first meeting, an old man flying of a bridge just to mess with her, making her truly believe she was dealing with some sort of horror rather than an old man.
Of that hazy part of her life. When she had been cursed, unable to remember even her own name, when Hick and her siblings stood as family before they even officially became one.
Of when Hick had turned to banditry, to nature and eventually to his family
Through every fight she had with her grandfather and every reconciliation, Hick had stood besides her.
And so Thalis mourned her greatest loss yet. Quiet sobbing filling her empty room.