Did someone seem to be missing?
Oh, yes, someone was indeed missing. Angel was absent from the reunion.
She had been sent off to her piano lessons early that morning.
Su Er's return was a major event, and Mr. Ellison hurried off in his car to bring the little girl home.
For the youngest child in the family, Mr. and Mrs. Ellison had instinctively chosen to hide the truth, saying only that her brother was injured and needed treatment in the hospital for a while, and that he would return once he recovered.
Still, although a child could not fully understand what death meant,
children were very sensitive to emotions.
While at Hogwarts, she had keenly felt everyone's sorrow. She vaguely understood that something serious might have happened to her brother, even though Mr. and Mrs. Ellison had hidden it very well at home...
Angel could still sense the change in their emotions.
But she also understood that crying and making a fuss would solve nothing, and Mrs. Ellison had comforted her as though nothing were wrong.
Young as she was, she understood everything, so she had been suppressing her emotions all along.
And so, today, just as she obediently returned home holding her father's hand,
she saw her brother greeting her with a smile. Angel stopped in her tracks, the corners of her mouth turned down, and the emotions she had suppressed for so long finally erupted.
Along with her sobs, an invisible surge of magic swept outward from Angel.
Buzz... Every inanimate object in the living room trembled violently. The first things to float were the shards of glass on the floor, followed by the picture frames, then the teacups on the coffee table, the chairs, the heavier television, the coffee table, and so on...
Everything trembled and