"The only person I ever had in my life, the only person who was ever there for me in my life. Who made me feel I wasn't different, like -

- everyone else did. Was my father, and I never even got to say goodbye to him, thank him. Tell him I loved him." She reached to wipe away -

- a single tear. "I know without me there to take care of him, protect him from the towns folk. He'll grow crazy, maybe he would have -

- been safer in the castle, but that was no way for a great inventor to live. I respect him so much, miss him so much."

She sat upon her feet in front of ℭlopin awaiting a story.