Kintla Flatlands [m] so please don't take me for no fool

The answer he gets is unexpected, in ways that Zephyr never thought about his own situation, Kratos hadn’t thought about his new one much either. Labelled quickly as a “no” from assumption instead of expanding into actual thought.
I don’t know. He echoes. Once thought that it was how things just were. I’d end up with a handful of bastards spread across the realm, none of them knowing who I was—just like how I was. A repeat in history, following in dear dad’s footsteps without ever knowing the man for himself.
Then I met you. And his world changed. Everything thrown upside down and shifted in ways that frightened and thrilled Kratos.