Today I feel free. No, not broke free. I feel free. For the very first time since she set a nuclear bomb to my whole existence, since TekNet died, the post was run-over and the flag fell, since root shackled me with a hard-to-die dream. I feel free, and by God alive.

So free that I told this silly, simple, creature sitting in my arms, heavy with child, about it and all her little 2-ounce mind could see was all the burdens and relics of my shackles. Don't blame her. Never was one for brains, but dear me does she have a heart.