Atrus's sad speech

“	And so, as I once again set my pen to the page, a heavy sorrow hangs over me. It's true that Releeshahn has been returned to us unharmed; that the age I wrote to provide a new beginning is secure. But I can't escape the facts of its return. Nothing I can do will change the past. The anguish of decisions that were made must be carried with me forever. But if I had been the one to face Saavedro, if I had seen the life my sons destroyed so callously, would I have left him stranded without hope? Would I have sacrificed his dreams to claim my own?	„