User blog comment:BTR180/Encuesta/@comment-28358106-20161115194459/@comment-28358106-20161119064800

My eyes narrow slightly. "You know good and well that I couldn't be there for them. Even your Goddess said so, that they were destined to die.  Why do you think that I did what I did, traveled to places unimaginable, just to undo the trap I had been lured into?  Just to find a way to avert everything?  I never lied about what happened.  And I did what any father would have done in my place.  I never meant to use you, Jorge.  Hell, I was going to dissuade you from staying until I noticed that Aurum had taken a liking to you."

I stick my hands in my pockets. "And I was going to tell you this later, when I was sure of its effects, but you left for Lescatie before I could. I went and...visited my brother.  I asked him to consolidate the memories of my family in the broken timeline into the "real" ones, in the here and now.  They...they didn't understand at first.  It was something like a dream, like memories of things that never happened to them.  We talked about it for weeks.  Then, a remarkable thing happened: they accepted it and coped."

I sigh. "I was so worried about protecting them, I never stopped to consider that they were being protected for no reason. I never gave them enough credit.  I guess before long, I'm going to have to deal with the fact that Aegis has a boyfriend," I chuckle.