She frowned at this. “You don’t think children can be better than their parents?” “They can be, yes. Most try, but few succeed. It’s difficult for mortals to recognize patterns from their own limited perspective. They can’t see the way their great grandparents passed wounds to their grandparents, their grandparents to their parents. They can’t hear the echoes of the eons, fathom the trauma they absorbed from something that happened centuries ago, spread through words and actions here in the present.”
Oof
