Aether stared in disbelief at the woman. What was she saying? Grandchild? He hadn't seen her before, so how could she state something like that? Was she mistaken? Did she think he was someone else? Or maybe something else?
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'But at the same time, I was the one who first said that her eyes looked similar to mine... so could she be telling the truth... No, that can't be; it's impossible.'
She knew both his grandparents; true, it has been a long time since he last saw them, and he was a child... and actually, thinking of it, he didn't remember their faces all that well, on his mother's side, that is; his father's parents he's seen a lot more.
His father and his mother's family weren't on the best terms; they didn't like him all that much, which is why he wasn't able to visit them that much. It was a complicated history between them, one that he had never been allowed to know of.
