Alaric had never felt so sad in his life. He had lived in violence for too long so he had almost become numb to emotions. For the past decades he had learnt to conceal his emotions and never show his true feelings to the outside world.
But since Aleksis came into his life, his frozen heart was slowly melting and he began to feel the emotions that burst forth from the bottom of his heart. Various emotions and feelings that had been buried for so long; feelings that had long been hidden behind his neutral expressions. Now, slowly, they began to show their forms.
Now he could not hold back his tears. The loss of his mother when he was born was his greatest pain so far, and he always carried with him a sense of guilt; that his birth was the cause of his mother's death.
I feel so very sad for Alaric and all Aleksis' family members right now. This is so unexpected and unfortunate.