This, then, was a question that August was actually seeking the answer to.

"I don't know," he said, "It was all a long time ago."

He wanted to see her again. He did. It had been years and he had journals full of things he had wanted to say to her. But it was a long time ago. They were different people now - in that she was not a person anymore, and he had to put Lysander first, because that was what you sometimes had to do as a parent.

"What would you do?"

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