Dimensional Descent

Rychard stood almost frozen…

Had he just lost 20% of his Sixth Dimensional experts… For no reason?

Aina's mind wandered. This time, she didn't need to hide how she was feeling. It was surprisingly easy for her to separate out emotion and logic when it came to her father. Of course, she lacked the emotional maturity to truly understand why that was.

It could have been because her father had always encouraged her to do so. It could be because her father simply didn't mean as much to her as he should have. It could have even been because the weight Leonel held for her was even heavier than that of the man she shared so much blood with.

The truth was that with her personality gone, many of the baggage and emotional scarring that came with it had vanished as well. The good news was that this had allowed Aina to heal from many things. Of course, the bad news was how these series of events was playing out.

To Aina, she had always attached a lot of this baggage to her father, but most of it wasn't love. It was duty, it was respect, it was an unwillingness to let him down… But on the list of emotions she attached to her father, love was very, very far down the list.

When Aina lost her personality, she essentially lost the ability to contextualize her memories. The things that weighed of heavy importance were often things she had the most and fondest memories of. But, with how long it had been since her father left her side, how could she have many of him to begin with?

The result was this.

Aina didn't feel worry, sadness or anger… She hadn't even asked how her father was doing or if he would survive the beating they had likely given him.

his daughter's mind, he would realize that he had faltered somewhere along their path. As for exactly

Aina herself was hardly considering this at this moment. As they walked through the Viola estate, following flowery reefs and paths of delicate rose petals, her mind seemed to be somewhere

No one else…

felt it for longer. There was a period in her life before her father

was very good. No children were starved or abused, at least not in the normal way. There was no yelling from their overseers and there was always food on their plates. There were even plenty of opportunities

something

Even in the people that it did, the treatments were fast, affordable and easily administered, as

couples, not to mention same sex couples, who had it within them to help or start families for

of same sex couples, the options for surrogacy and sperm donation was so high class that many would choose to have their own children anyway. Surrogacy didn't even need a living human anymore and would only need an egg donor, while the Gene Analysis Exam ensured that any and everything

hearted couples, heterosexual or otherwise, who thought to adopt

the Empire was so good, that often the treatment of the children was even better than what these kind hearted couples could provide, so much of the incentive one might have was

issue of class disparity. Those on the surface of Earth were often too busy trying to maintain their status into the future generations to worry about adopting while

and largest issues: The fees that came with adopting a child depending on their Gene Analysis Exam varied wildly. The more talented the child,

Emperor Fawkes. Children wouldn't understand the underlying system, all they would understand is that their government cared for them since they were children when their parents

Aina was doomed to never be placed with a family. Every time she made connections with a new friend, they might be adopted the next day, leaving her

off and focused entirely on her training.