"Without a word, they came at our family with weapons, chasing and slashing. They attacked everyone indiscriminately, even my sister and me. The scar on my back is from one of their blades. My mother was stabbed multiple times trying to protect my younger sister!"
"How cruel," Thomas Valerius said, raising an eyebrow. His voice was filled with regret, yet his eyes held not a trace of sympathy—only ridicule.
Steven Miller took a breath to steady himself and continued, "My mother was gravely injured and knew she couldn't go on. She used her body to desperately hold those men back, creating a chance for my father and us to escape. I watched with my own eyes as those monsters brutally murdered my mother. They kept shouting Professor Sterling's name. Professor Sterling must have been the one who sent them to kill my father. He must have!"
