Since 'next' is a time-order word, you need another.
'Then' is a time-order word. You are not stating a 'fact', nothing happened abruptly, or 'suddenly', and you aren't comparing anything, 'similarly'.
It means that you are asking something or does the author have expertise on that topic what they are writing about
1. Withered
2. Detachedness
3. Resgination
4. Fencing
This is late but someone else might need this answer :)
