Everything was intensely disappointing, and it didn't look like it was going to be different anytime soon. Yes, his sister had returned, but that only made things worse. Her insisting that emotions were needed to make imbuing 'perfect', and that he needed to just pick someone to be emotional with...
No. He tried that. And it was a horrid failure. It came with more failure than he was ever prepared for, and the ones after that....There was, in fact, emotion involved. When he was looking in the eyes of someone he had gotten to agree to imbue with him, it was...still emotional.
Well, he would fix that this time. He wouldn't be present when the imbuing was done.
And this way...he wouldn't have another parent of any type to feel anything at all towards.
Just him and the stone. His stone.
