Pulling the Leash (Part 1)

A mind link would have transmitted the images and the feelings that Solus had experienced inside the Mindscape while the fusion allowed her also to share her current inner turmoil and the feelings that reliving the experience aroused.

"I'm glad to have met my parents one last time even though they were just recordings stored in Mogar's consciousness. I was really happy to hear them say to me how they never resented me, yet I still can't forgive myself.

"I don't blame myself for what happened to Threin, I mean my father. But that only because as he told me, I was just a child who didn't know better. What happened to Mom, instead, was entirely my fault.

"Awakened or not, past 20 years of age I would have been considered an adult even on Earth yet I kept acting like a spoiled child. I was so full of myself that no matter how many times Aunt Loka and Malyshka tried to open my eyes, I never listened to them.