Redtail Rise are we living a life that is worth the harm

It was impossible not to admire the certainty with which his sister lived her life. Even from a young age, Avicus had always known what she wanted and hadn't been afraid to leap for it. Aventus, conversely, had only reached out for things he felt were achievable, hesitating to go any further than what he could easily grasp, and that hesitation had always come at great cost.

Not me, he admitted. I didn't want to subject any child to the life we had. So he had tried to take a different path than his father. So he had tried to be better for his sons.

But he had failed at that, too.