Ren had been cursing himself for a while.
Not out loud… The internal kind, the kind one did when tracing the chain of decisions that had brought them to a specific point and finding at each step a previous version of themselves who had made a choice with good intentions and insufficient information about the consequences.
The Ren who had made a promise to Liora.
The Ren who had made a promise to Larissa.
The Ren who had assumed things would resolve themselves.
The Ren who had made a promise to Luna.
The Ren who had believed that being kind and not leaving anyone out was simply the right approach, and that the complications would come later, and that later was a future problem.
Okay… The future had arrived.
