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"Yes, a girl." He confirmed with his head hung low in shame. "It was a girl and I was given the choice of choosing between both of them. I. . Cassandra tightened her lips and shook her head. She placed her hand on his cheek. "It's not your fault child. If I think about it she was a human and the condition that she must have been and it was difficult to have both of them survive and the child would have survived without its mum."
He lowered his head even more. "I could have focused on them both. I could have saved them both fullstop I could have saved Alexander. Everything could have been done at the best had I thought it through. I just focused on adaline!"
"Someone had to die," it pained her to say this but she knew she had to, "someone had die that night. That is what war is all about. The child, I didn't think it was meant to say why. She was premature and she did not have you while she was with her mum. The child would have been really weak." She shook her head again.
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