Minerva turned toward him with wide blinking eyes.
Her expression was stuck somewhere between shock and disbelief. "Was that my father on the phone?"
"Yeah, most probably," Lucius replied with a tired yawn.
His phone vibrated again in his hand, buzzing angrily like it wanted to leap out of his palm but he ignored it.
At this point, he had mentally committed to letting whoever was calling him simmer down before entertaining another round of screaming.
"Answer it…" Minerva whispered, and her voice trembled enough to make Lucius finally glance at her properly.
Her eyes were glossy, showing the restrained tears of someone who had been trying to stay hopeful for far too long.
"Please… I've dedicated a lot of my life trying to make my way into the human world to meet my father and mother again. Now I realize that even if I had managed to get there on my own, it would have been treated as a dungeon break, and I would have been killed before even getting to see their faces."
