While the conditions of Brent's living arrangements got a lot better after Aunt Dina got destroyed by Henry and Ellie, it was still a week later before he heard anything from the outside world.
Well, he heard a lot from the outside world around him, like how he was a failure, how he was ruining the James name, how he was an imposter, blah blah blah from his family, but not from the people that actually mattered.
In fact, the people of the city were being slowly turned against Brent because of his stupid fucking brother and the reach that they had. He was being painted as a mad man, someone that the family had written off because the general public hadn't heard anything about him for years.
