Elder Mr. Lancaster froze for a moment, not understanding why Ethan suddenly brought this up.

"My dad died. My mom got her face scarred and cried herself to sleep every night. My uncle worked himself to the brink of death, just to barely pull CE back from the edge. And you? You told me to drop out of school, to cut ties with all my old friends because you thought they'd look down on me."

"You preached to me, night and day, about how hard life was for our family. You ...