My responsibilities unfortunately kept me at home, most of the time. If a mission was especially dire, they would send me. But for most of them, Kanao would go in my stead while I took care of our patients.

[ had she lived a different life, one that kanae had wanted for her, she likely would have travelled frequently, explored whatever the world had to offer her. her curiosity would not be stifled; she would not have been content to stay in one area with her desire to discover new things and places.

but that isn't the life she led. neither would it ever be a life she could have. ]

I don't think that was the case for you, was it? You don't strike me as a man who settled down, so to speak.