"I'd like to hear about everything I've missed," she continues, unable to let go, especially once he settles. "If you're willing, of course." She hopes that he will be. How long has she been away from him? How much of his life was she not allowed to witness?

Time was funny with the way it worked. She never really looked into it so much, even after Laharl was born. She pushed it away as fate and believed nothing so strange would happen again. But from what she was learning already of this city, Paixao had a way of changing things up.