
“I don’t deserve Arcadia. It’s most simple. For whatever reason, however, she’s accepted my offer to be her mother again. My wife found her and brought her to the Citadel. She never obtained her regeneration cycle, but I don’t count her a failure. It wasn’t her fault she didn’t finish at the Academy; she was thrust young into the Time War. She has the eyes I had when she was loomed: an intense and jeweled blue. And her father’s ginger hair. She is quiet, and ferocious, but she holds it all in. There is a joy and a playfulness that come out, though, when the two of us work on her telepathy lessons. Because you see, she also inherited my prodigal gift for telepathic manipulation. I wonder if she knows how proud I am.”










