"He wanted me dead..” Mother of Eternity, this was the most horrific statement I have ever heard uttered. “My own father.” He sat on the floor of my bedchamber, gripping the carpet in his fingers as a means to hold onto something solid, to keep his rationality, if only barely. His knuckles went white as they tightened around the fringe cording. AI wasn’t supposed to be alive. I was a curse.” Especially his son. "Tell me." He lay down on the carpet and turned away from me. "A hole in the earth," he said softly. "That was where he wanted to put me."