and change change change is gonna come but

I believed that we were best with Marius. That I knew him, at least, that we had once believed in the same things and I might influence him well. That Veda had her best chance beneath his protection. I had trusted him, once, and to his credit I have never doubted his love for his children.

( it wasn't a great decision, but there hadn't been great options. )

But it was. Awful. And- Marius's extremes aside, common. Terribly, terribly common. I wished to make it less so.