All the symptoms are there

This news was indeed a shock to both Elias and Miguel, and the shield that Miguel had put in place wavered even as Miguel realized what it meant...

He and Elias had always believed that this Dual Cultivation bond would not allow them to have children together, because the only couple before them who had possessed it had not had any.

Only that couple had died only a year after they had started to develop it, and he had died even earlier than them, so Alan and Erik were the first to have stayed with this bond for so long.

Elias then shouted: "Miguel, pull yourself together!"

Miguel then realized that the shield he'd put in place had become unstable due to all his emotions and after stabilizing it, he looked at Elias and said: "I'm sorry... So sorry..."