Theron didn't seem to react to the word very much. One would have thought he hadn't heard them at all.
As far as he was concerned, there were only so many ways that Lyrah could have ended up here, and the fact it was related to her daughter was probably at the very top of that list.
That said, considering she was standing here, just fine and seemingly without injury, also made it pretty clear that this wasn't exactly a life-and-death situation. At the very least, if they were in the family, the Umbra Clan Head wasn't going to let anything too overt happen to his daughter and her mother.
If the Umbra Clan Head was so open to such things, then his wives wouldn't have had to be so cautious with how they dealt with Lyra and Lyrah.
The cultivation world wasn't exactly known for its mercy. These two would have been uprooted at the root long ago if it was that easy.
Clearly, it wasn't.
