“Lionel likes to spread the Acrux name like butter dripping across all who come close enough to touch it,” Hail scoffed. “As if applying such a thing means anything at all in the face of true power. My parents only managed to carry one child to full term – me. After their death I was the only Vega left, but there was no part of me which wished to start tracking down old family relations and calling them Vega just to up the numbers. A name with power like ours shouldn’t just be handed out at will. It is earned.”
