[And he means that. It is likely the furthest thing she wants to humor now, but... in the future, such memories might employ their siren call once more.]
Amelia, if there's one thing I can say for certain, it's that our memories make us who we are. Our memories are our pasts, and we're nothing... but a result of that.
[For good or ill.]
Briar's never left you.
[Just like his parents and sister has never left him. Papa, too. The children in the lab still rest there in the folds of his mind. He is an accumulation of all their parts as much as they are of his.]
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[And he means that. It is likely the furthest thing she wants to humor now, but... in the future, such memories might employ their siren call once more.]
Amelia, if there's one thing I can say for certain, it's that our memories make us who we are. Our memories are our pasts, and we're nothing... but a result of that.
[For good or ill.]
Briar's never left you.
[Just like his parents and sister has never left him. Papa, too. The children in the lab still rest there in the folds of his mind. He is an accumulation of all their parts as much as they are of his.]