Barrow Fields Surrounded and up against a wall

A moment of silence passed between them before the stranger rejoined with his own announcement. Well shit. Tybault hadn't expected that. Not that he was about to let this guy win, of course.
Well, He said irreverently. Sucks to be you. Tybault definitely wasn't about to get all serious and sappy about this, especially since his own mother wasn't even dead. She was just dead to him. Which really wasn't all that different, he thought, because it meant the same thing. He would never see her again. So maybe he hadn't lied completely?