Part of Luca wanted to say that of course his parents still cared about him, but he remembers Alberto's situation and he knows that's not always the case.
"Even when we disagree, it's because my parents wanted to keep me safe. They wanted to send me to the Deep to keep me safe from humans." And Varian's seen how dangerous it gets, so he knows now why they might be ready to take desperate measures. "But...there's no light there, and nothing to do but eat bits of floating whale carcass all day. And there's so much about the world I want to learn, and I'd never have been able to do it down there. Alberto convinced my parents to let me stay on the surface and go to school."
He smiles when Varian mentions that they mean a lot to each other.
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Part of Luca wanted to say that of course his parents still cared about him, but he remembers Alberto's situation and he knows that's not always the case.
"Even when we disagree, it's because my parents wanted to keep me safe. They wanted to send me to the Deep to keep me safe from humans." And Varian's seen how dangerous it gets, so he knows now why they might be ready to take desperate measures. "But...there's no light there, and nothing to do but eat bits of floating whale carcass all day. And there's so much about the world I want to learn, and I'd never have been able to do it down there. Alberto convinced my parents to let me stay on the surface and go to school."
He smiles when Varian mentions that they mean a lot to each other.
"Yeah, we really do."