Ironically, the words Connor used time and time again.

Of course, implying if there was indeed something that could be done. Was there? Was there anything Ziio could do? How old was he again? A mother's guidance? A mother period? What did he want? He could be the most selfish person in the world and ask for Ziio to never leave him again and they could start being a family once more.

But that wasn't him. He could never ask that of her off the bat. Or ANYONE, for that matter. It seriously felt like they just met. No one could promise never leaving either.

"I do not know," he said, honestly. "There is much I want, but I cannot ask for it. It would not be fair to anyone. I know this; and I only resent it because I do not want there to be tension between us more than anything."

He had enough of that with Haytham.