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[memlost]

[An upbeat male voice comes on:]

Hey, it's Morgan! If you were expecting a girl, you picked the wrong picture. If not, then congratulations! But sorry too, because this means I've missed you. Leave a message!

[Beep.]

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[challengedfate]

[ ...Ah, so he did get that message after all. Lucina falls quiet for a moment, listening to her brother's words. But she shakes her head, however to herself it is since he can't see. No matter how hard he tries to take the blame, it's going to be harder to shake Lucina from the blame she feels she carries too.

She is the one who lead him and the other children back in their world, she is his sister, and she promised--swore on Falchion to protect him. So she can't not find that part of it is her fault.]

No, the fault is also my own. If only I had been more observant, if I had tried harder to find you then...! [Maybe she could've prevented his death]

[memlost]

[ He expected this reaction of her, and everyone loves Lucina for her responsibility. But a forceful edge enters his voice, because he wants his sister to understand-- ]

Then I would have done the same thing! And I would have had to fight against you too, on top of everyone else! And I would have hurt you when you were trying to help me, and no one would have been any better off for it.

So don't wish you were there. You'd have been lost on me.

[ Frustration. Not just as her, but at himself too. ]

[challengedfate]

[The sudden change in his tone makes Lucina flinch, not because she wasn't ready for it or expecting it, but because she can hear the frustration and weight he carries himself. It hurts her more because she knows he's hurting just as much as she is, if not more. But still... ]

You cannot ask that of me, Morgan! [There's a small, shaky sigh] Not a moment will pass where I won't wish I hadn't been there, no matter what may have become of me if I was. Had this happened within our own realm, your life would have been lost with no chance of returning and I to be left with a heavier grief, knowing that my own carelessness took part in your death.

[There isn't much of a difference between how she would've felt then and how she feels now. No matter the fact that this place brings back those who've died, the fact of the matter lives on. And what happened did happen, no matter how lucky and blessed by Naga she feels past her guilt that he and her father were given far more chances than they should.

Her voice softens a little more] I understand the frustration and anger that you carry, Brother. What it is you must have gone through, what you must have felt and all that you burden alone is what I can only imagine as something far too great and cruel... [It's the same as she felt when the other Morgan told her her own story of when she became a Grimleal, explained that she was scared and never wanted to hurt her friends again... ] And I'm sorry that you did have to go through such things... that your hand was forced to fight against your friends and comrades. I'm so sorry...

I truly wish none of it had befallen you.

I know you want to think best and to protect me, but please, do not ask me to wish I hadn't been there to try and save the only family I have left. [Robin and Chrom are without a doubt her parents, no matter what world they jump to, she will always consider them her family, her most precious. But Morgan, this Morgan is all she has left of the family--the graves she left behind in a burning Ylisstol.]

[memlost]

...

[ He goes silent at that, because in honesty he'd forgotten -- Lucina's unique perspective, and the position he must take up in it. When he speaks again, the steel has left his voice. ]

I apologize. I didn't think of... sorry.

[ But it should have been obvious. As her brother, shouldn't he know these things? ... He frowns to himself and shoves that feeling away. ]

Regardless, I'm glad you weren't there, even if that's what you would have wanted. You already take on so much, Lucina. You didn't need all of that on top of it.