“My love for you is more than instinct, more than pride. It is a living thing, Fel’annár, pure and single minded. It wakes with me at dawn, sings me to sleep at night, promises me that one day my eyes would see your face, share the same world, the same room, the same space. And now, you are here, in my arms, after all this time, across worlds and lifetimes. The gods are cruel and callous, righteous, and magnanimous. They took my babe, then brought him back a man, strong and good. You are all I ever imagined you would be, everything I knew you could be.”
