After Vitaliara finally confirmed from Lucavion that Isolde was indeed Alexander Valoria's daughter, her response made one thing clear.
The name had given her context, perhaps even explained why something about Isolde had felt strangely familiar once Gerald's old memories were taken into account. Yet it had done little to answer the question that had truly caught her attention.
Gerald's history with Alexander belonged to another generation, tangled in friendships and grievances that had long since become their own scars. Whatever weight that history placed upon the name Valoria, it was not what Vitaliara had sensed from Lucavion in Hall C.
That had been something far more personal.
Something that had pulled his vitality in opposite directions the moment Isolde approached him, leaving behind a contradiction Vitaliara had yet to properly understand.
And she called this out directly.
