He simply froze as his eyes rested on his newborn daughter.
Time slowed down to a freeze.
As if nothing was allowed to move while he beheld his own daughter for the very first time.
The mental explosion that had erupted within his own mind expanded like a supernova, consuming his systems of thought and his Martial Mind, washing over his Mind Palace.
It was an explosion of emotion.
More emotion than he had ever experienced in his entire life.
In all of his lives.
It was an explosion of love.
The sheer force of the explosion shook everything within his mindscape, affecting even his Martial Path as the most profound of realizations dawned on him.
All his life, nothing had ever truly challenged Project Water's centrality to his life and his Martial Path. Not even his family, not even his mother, not even his father, not even Amare, who had resigned to being subsumed by it.
Nothing had ever challenged the most important thing in his life.
And nothing could.
