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“You’ve got a newborn at home? That right?” His smile softened the chilly air, and Haki was confident she’d made the right move. “Leia,” he said. “She’s our first. War orphan.” “First is a trip. Second is easier but never easy as you expect—you figure you’ve been through the worst, then the babe turns out to have their own personality. The third, though… the third is sheer joy.”

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The Mask of Fear

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“Jede Familie hat ihre Geheimnisse, denke ich. Ihre Mythen, Legenden, Traumata. Manches bleibt unausgesprochen, anderes wird aufgeblasen oder falsch erinnert. Wir können nicht immer mit hundertprozentiger Sicherheit sagen, dass alles stimmt, wie es erinnert, wie es erzählt wird. Wir können uns aber entscheiden, Fragen zu stellen, uns die Version der Erinnerung anzuhören, die unsere Verwandten bereit sind zu erzählen. Mehr bleibt uns nicht. Und am Ende geht es vielleicht mehr um den Moment des Erzählens dieser Geschichten. Darum, einander begegnet zu sein, den Schmerz und gleichzeitig das Glück, am Leben zu sein, zu teilen, miteinander, in dem Moment.”

“I had once thought that I came from a line of Gods, and I had punished myself for failing to be Godlike. But we were not Gods, and I was not the avatar for our family’s unraveling. I was just another product of inherited trauma, unresolved grief, and reactive survival mechanisms, like everyone else who came before me. We were mortals who felt ashamed when we failed to appear omnipotent.”