"There is no way to predict if my thinking were to change. Vacuous Rom's behaviour was markedly different going from human to kin. She became singly focused on maintaining her veil and living in silence on the lake. And who am I, mortal and frail-minded, to question her motivations, her actions? She knows more than I do by her very nature.

"And what will change for me should I gain more eyes and ascend? What else will I see that I do not now? It is to ask someone to commit to something before unpredictable, earth-shaking change. I will not be the man I am now in so many senses of the word..."