"Little Ian had become completely cold and detached over the years,," Old Madam King explained, looking up at the sky, "He didn't care about anyone or anything and he functioned like a machine. So when he finally started to care about you, it felt like a miracle to us. We hoped things would look more optimistic... It gave us hope that our boy was finally becoming human again. "
Ella looked away from the old woman as she opened her mouth, "There was nothing about 'becoming human' again. Adrian had always been humane enough, he just didn't express himself. He felt the pain like the rest of, and he experienced happiness the same too. His experiences... made him cold but he was not... incapable of feeling human emotions..."
Ella trailed off suddenly, realizing that even in a situation where her own world was falling apart, she was defending Adrian.
It was almost ironic and laughable how deep she had walked into this.
