... I do want them to be real.

[ He felt weird, admitting the truth as easily as he did, but that was that, and he didn't plan on backtracking now. ]

I want them to be real, because there I finally understood what it was to actually have a family. Primals don't have that luxury, and I was always curious, but I never got a straight answer... until there, that is.

I don't want that ruined. But I asked, just so you knew you had a way out.