“Dad, she can’t just abandon as she pleases. And then when she comes looking for me ten years later, I still have to be waiting for her in the same place? She returned after ten years! If she were to return after twenty years instead, am I supposed to wait for her until I’m old and grey? Am I supposed to not get married and have children in this life then?”

Old Master Poole was speechless. There was a pause before he sighed. “It’s not that I don’t know this reasoning, but son, our family and th