Whisperia threw her hands in the air and shook her head.<span style="color: #330066">"oh isn't that just a brilliant impasse?"</span>she shook her head and paced for several minutes.<span style="color: #330066">"you want to know how? you just do. you look in the mirror, you accept your failure and you get the fuck over it because every single minute that you spend wallowing in your guilt is another time you have failed your children!"</span>she marched up to Ras to stare him in the eyes.<span style="color: #330066">"you treat those thoughts like the enemy they are and you destroy them. you pick your little girl up and you love her so hard that your guilt shrivels up and dies! you swear that you will never fail her again and then you spend the rest of your life trying to make good on that oath. i do it every damned day! i failed your brother, i have failed Kuro dozens of times, i failed Britomart and i failed Karren so catastrophically that i can barely look in the mirror. but what i do not do is let my guilt be more important then they are.</span>" she poked him in the chest hard and growled.<span style="color: #330066">"you wanted to be a father and that means putting your children first."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>