Adrian sat in the backyard with his elder brother, it had been a long time since they had caught up. The door slammed open:
"Lorena's dead"
While he made no physical or verbal reaction to the tragedy, the thoughts swirled in Adrian's head. . .
"I just saw her a few days ago, who could've done this"
"It's impossible, Lorena's too resilient to die"
Adrian had always held Lorena in high regard for as long as he had know her, she was everything he was not. It wasn't a type of envy he held for her, but a deep respect for Senna. In recent years he had seen her waver, but give up? Never. She held an eternal fire that melted the inferior men she had to answer to. He recalled in the past year after such incident, he went to check up on her at the river.
"You alright, Lorena?"
She ranted, he listened. They were things he had heard before, the stupidity of the Empire didn't surprise him anymore, but even when she had still dealt with it a thousand times more than he had, Lorena still cared. But now his friend was gone, she had given the Empire her body, mind, and now her blood. Her courage though, she gave that to the people who knew her. It was something Adrian had no plans of ever relinquishing.
"Adrian, we need to leave now. Are you coming?"
He gave them a nod and signed the lorraine, whispering to himself,
"Rest well my friend"