"Free will Delta-Eleanor's Gift to you , and with each decision, you twisted her into your own image."
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"You made a monster out of me father. You left me in doubt. Didn't you want me to be like you? I knew I could save you; but if you felt regret, if you wanted me to chose for myself I would have to let you go, to let you die. "
Even as I tell him this, I have my doubts. Father has changed since coming back from the dead. I have also changed coming back from the dead.
Neither of us have bloodless hands anymore.
Father has always valued my safety more then my happiness. Oh, he tried sometimes, but he wanted to save me, more then he wanted (needed?) me happy. It makes sense in Rapture.
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Mother I left behind, and you chose to die, rather then have me follow you. "
I drop my extractor and grab his hand, pulling him to the waters edge. Ten years ago, I might have pulled him like this to get the next angel.
There is no sun today. Soon I will lose my last tie to Rapture, family, my life. Nothing to hold me back, yet also, nothing to keep me from floating up above the ocean into the sky. It's lonely.
But I am strong. Father has given me everything I have asked for, in the end, and I have not thanked him yet.
"You gave me the greatest gift of all. Something I have never had. My freedom."
At that, his helmet turned to look up at me.
"There is no name for what I am, but the world is about to change. I thought we would seize it together. "
My wishes came true, and the price was far steeper then I had ever imagined. I lost everyone. I now have nothing to lose now, and everything to gain. The idea of seizing the world together with father, was still not an unappealing one. We wouldn't be alone. But I made a wish, he made a choice, and I will not take anything back. We have decided on this.
Even if it was the hardest thing I had ever done.
"Yet as I sat there with you, I wondered If even I could be