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k_a_webbThe silence that followed wasn’t a surprise. Daniel couldn’t quite believe he’d done something so stupid, either, at least not when he started to realise that the choices he made during his first life were flawed. Sometimes they were dangerously flawed, but, if he kept his memories of all the lives he’d led, hopefully he’d be able to change things. He might not be able to stop what had happened, he was certain there would be someone else who’d want to create the Brotherhood, but he wouldn’t be the one to do it, to change the world, by telling everyone that the Millennium Children existed.
“I readily admit that I shouldn’t have done something like that, but at the time it seemed like my best option. Wanting you to love me, Kara, had made me into someone I don’t wish to be again, although I will tell you now that I didn’t fall out of love with you, ever. Even though you were the one who put an end to Mim’s life.” Daniel smiled at the fox. “You did the right thing. Miriam didn’t want to live as one of us and we both know she was going to end it herself when she’d rescued you all. I’m just sorry that she changed your life for you, without asking what it was you wanted, and took away your best friend.”
“What are you talking about?” Miles asked, sounding worried. That told Daniel that Kara wasn’t filling her time by talking to Miles the way she had the first time. “The girl you believe that fox will turn into killed your sister, the sister you’ve been looking for all your life, and you don’t hate her.”
“Miriam made some bad choices, Miles, because she found out that someone she trusted was going to use her and her friends in order to take over the world, much the way I ended up doing. She didn’t want to be used, she didn’t want her friends to be used, so she planned out how she was going to rescue them all in great detail. It started with her taking over Conrad’s mind. She didn’t have the strength to be able to kill everyone herself, but he did, and she knew that he wouldn’t be able to fight her off too quickly. Not like Kara, who was her second choice, at least until Conrad put an end to her plans by telling Kara what was going on.
“By that time she’d already freed everyone but Kara and herself anyway. When Kara went to Miriam my sister was crying on her bed, because she’d put Kara into such a difficult position, and if it hadn’t of been Miriam I think Kara would have just put an end to it all then. However Kara was Miriam’s friend, so they talked things through instead, and Kara came to understand why Miriam had made the choice she had, even though she didn’t agree with it. Kara did know Tristan better, so that’s probably why she wasn’t worried that Leonard’s grandson was going to be just like the man Miriam had made the decision to remove.”
Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.