“It’s true, I couldn’t enter the conflict. Your Circle dissolved when your parents were presented with the official death certificate and I had no reason to obey Rex or you, technically we no longer had a chain of command. I mean, you were no longer there.” —he paused, perhaps thinking that I had to process it and answer him something, but since I did not, Ami continued:— “When Rex called me, I wanted to go; and the truth is that I couldn’t move from my station. I’m sorry I took so long to come visit you. Politics is a pain in the ass, but someone has to take care of it.”
“It’s fine, it’s not like…” —I decided to let it go; once again I had forgotten that in the last few years the world had kept turning and I knew nothing— “Hilda told me that you organized everything so they would bring m
