[More than one - he doesn't need to be reminded. That was the one thing he hadn't been able to understand about her, how she had learned to let her guard down - even just a little bit - around so many. It was what had scared him into pushing her away that time, because he thought for the first time that she was on a level different from the one he had always languished on.
He can't - and won't - argue against the importance of family, although he knows that Kaori had given him something Martel never could, and he knows - thinks? - he had done the same in return. A perfect circle.
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He can't - and won't - argue against the importance of family, although he knows that Kaori had given him something Martel never could, and he knows - thinks? - he had done the same in return. A perfect circle.
But what Aleos says next throws him off.]
You were...chosen? [What did he mean by that?]