“It was important for Ronan to know he was just as loved as you,” the new Fenian said. “The consequences of something like that feeling wronged … It was important he be raised a son, not a monster or a pet.” But the problem was that Ronan had ended up feeling like a monster or a pet, Declan thought. And he had turned out to be dangerous to the world, and to himself. A lifetime of being raised as a human and then told, upon adulthood, that no, being human was not going to work out for him.