Phoenix Maplewood Why did God create atheists?

He listens closely to what Esma had to say, and yet, he could only smile. For once he would not speak against her thought, for it mattered that she believed what she wished, freedom of mind, of speech. “I never thought of life that way.” 

It made his heart warm even further to know that she would remember a piece of his words. Then, she turned to his mission. “Yes, it is. But, things must go the way they are meant to.” 

She then asked him a surprising question, yet only a bit of surprise showed on his feature. Was he their father? 

Caracal’s fate couldn’t be avoided. “No. Not by blood. Their father he… he passed away at the end of fall. It broke the family’s hearts, in more ways than one.” 

“I want to be a father figure, but I know that will be hard for them, to accept a father who is not theirs.” This was true, he be lying if he denied the fact that he himself wished to be a father.