Part 26
“While we admire our parents’ honesty in wanting you to know that they never tried to hide it from you, knowing you all as we do now, it was obviously a mistake to tell you that when you were so young. It was also something that they weren’t proud of, so having done their duty in telling you, they didn’t bring it up after that. That was another mistake.
“We know that all of the problems with your behavior stem from two things.
“The first and most important is your attitude that ‘they never wanted us anyway’. You think; ‘Why bother listening to our parents when they ask us to do things, when they never wanted us anyway? Why bother doing chores, doing your lessons, having a work ethic? They never wanted us anyway. Why not just have fun and do whatever we want? They never wanted us anyway. We’re just a problem to them, and we have been from the start.’
“You don’t even talk about it among yourselves, but that attitude has poisoned every part of your thinking. You all stick together like some persecuted minority, because you’re the ones they didn’t want. It was already ingrained in you long before you became psionic, so you never shared yourselves except with each other, and not much of that. Because of that, you lost the chance to truly know anyone else, including your parents, and your psionic development has been stunted.
“But you’re going to learn something, and learn it the hard way; being unplanned is not the same thing as being unwanted. You were always wanted, your mothers especially had desperately wanted to have you for years before it became possible for them to do so. You were only unwanted to the extent that you made yourselves unwanted with your own despicable behavior.”
“In fact, because of your origins, your parents have bent over backwards to be there for you on your demand, the second you ask for them, no matter what. They spoiled you rotten in every possible way, and that was a big mistake.
“Your co-fathers among the Volunteers love you like you were their own, but you choose not to believe it because they’re not really your fathers, and our father Mark was always there for you individually and on demand anyway, so you didn’t need your co-fathers. And it’s them that you’ve hurt the most.
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so when they talked to you about us, they tended to avoid that
that they like us better. Of course our mothers do like us better, but your mothers like you better too, that’s just natural. Our Father likes us better too, but not because of us, rather because your abuse of his trust and his love has ensured that he likes
loves our mothers more than he loves yours. In the beginning that was true, but not since you were born. Our father was determined to love them equally, to be fair to them, and they all love him so genuinely and so much that it was easy for him to return their love. We’re all capable of giving and enjoying an infinite amount of love, our only limitation is time, and Father has made sure to give lots of his time and attention to all of our mothers, the same as he did for you and for us. He’s never
Volunteers were less discreet about us than our parents. We know that the Volunteers have held us up to you as examples, and that you know from them
older brother and sisters, and you wanted to preserve that, so you wanted out of the time-bubble before you grew too far beyond us. There’s
of you think that since you’re subjectively twelve and we’re subjectively seven that you must have grown beyond us already, especially as a group, and you wanted out of the time-bubble so you could prove it. You’re about to find out how wrong
us, some of you idolize us, but none of you are making any effort to actually be like
Fire and I have been in the mind of an insane Sylvan who wanted nothing more from life than to torture us
But none of you have changed because you’ve developed an admirable character, or because you choose to behave honorably, or because your feel any guilt or responsibility for what you’ve done. You only improved because you didn’t want to be restricted to Hiliani for the rest of your lives, and because you realized that you’re not going to be able to keep getting away with so much crap forever, and because your vows
is going to take two
you where you stand in relation to us, and satisfy our personal sense of justice. No one hurts our parents as much as you lot have without answering to
three is going to give each of you a good hard blow to the face. Block it