There's a dose of skepticism in his voice and you can't blame him. Where he comes from there's not vampires or people that live that long, so you can't really blame him. She looks like any ordinary person from what he can tell, though he is a little unsettled by her flask ...
"I don't know if I ever tried."
He said with a shake of his head. Perhaps at the time he wasn't sure that he'd end up a one woman man, but he had known when he was falling in love with Renata that she wasn't like anyone he knew. So the idea that he could replace her at all was not something he considered. And since his daughter had not yet been born, losing her before he had gotten to meet her, was processed in its own way.
"I kept busy with work and then I started to wonder if I was really the type cut out for being in a family." He found himself reaching to crack the mechanical knuckles of his metallic hands. "I suppose there's been a few that might have called me a mentor over the years. That seemed a better fit."
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There's a dose of skepticism in his voice and you can't blame him. Where he comes from there's not vampires or people that live that long, so you can't really blame him. She looks like any ordinary person from what he can tell, though he is a little unsettled by her flask ...
"I don't know if I ever tried."
He said with a shake of his head. Perhaps at the time he wasn't sure that he'd end up a one woman man, but he had known when he was falling in love with Renata that she wasn't like anyone he knew. So the idea that he could replace her at all was not something he considered. And since his daughter had not yet been born, losing her before he had gotten to meet her, was processed in its own way.
"I kept busy with work and then I started to wonder if I was really the type cut out for being in a family." He found himself reaching to crack the mechanical knuckles of his metallic hands. "I suppose there's been a few that might have called me a mentor over the years. That seemed a better fit."