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"How so?" "When I married your mother, I went completely against the wishes of my master, who had sired you. But something had suddenly transformed in me. For the first time in my life, I felt care and love for another. Not fear, out of which I and others slavishly obey our master, but love. When your mother fled with her British soldier and you I felt genuinely heartbroken. And remorseful. Our master charged me with the sole custody of your sibling, but I could never quite bring myself to inspiring him to covet power and dominance through hate. I became instead a doting stepfather, and many times your father would brutally punish me with unspeakable torments I could not begin to describe here, and every time I submitted to him, there was something in that child that made me want to love and care, but not dominate or corrupt. That was really why I came with him to visit you all those years in England...