Chapter Forty-Four — Xavier's Grief
Xavier's Point of View
My father's name was Caspian Moon.
I say this first because the world has largely forgotten it or never bothered to learn it — preferring instead to remember him as a casualty, a footnote, the unnamed father of the antagonist in someone else's story. The man who died in the war. The man whose death became the motivation. The man whose entire existence, in the telling of others, is reduced to the function he serves in Alvaro Creed's narrative.
He was not a footnote.
He was a man.
And before the world turned him into a reason, he was my father, and he was alive, and the specific texture of that aliveness is something I have carried in my body like a splinter since the night Kronos tore it away from us.
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