Ras sat down across from his daughter and looked at her intently as she ate. After a few minutes he let out a sigh. "I won't bother telling you how sorry I am, how sorry we are. You already know that. But I will ask if you can accept your flawed parents and help us be better to you. We're awful parents, absent, and seem to live in entirely different worlds from you. But it has never been malicious. So I ask you, please, if you ever feel like we're making a mistake or upsetting you, please tell us. We can't learn and get better if we're not shown our mistakes."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>