Twisted Man.

"You have changed, Ethan. You know that, right?"

Silence.

"Why would you allow her leave when you know very much how you are going to suffer if she's not around?"

Silence.

"Ethan, I am talking to you!"

Silence.

"Uncle Kyle, I think you should just leave daddy alone. You are breaking my concentration over here," Esther yelled from where she was seated on the porch, doing her assignment with Hazel beside her.

She looked from her father's doctor who was sitting on a chair at the front of the lake, to her father who was seated directly opposite the latter.

Ethan had his facemask on, as Hazel was present and sitting not very far from them.

"Ethan? Would you rather I just leave?" Kyle tried for the last time, frustrated by the fact that Ethan was ignoring him.

"Of course," Ethan finally spoke. "But not before admitting that you really are a useless doctor."

"Ethan..."