"Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world."
― Katie J. Davis

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It's been eighteen years to the day since the Overlord had been defeated, and I have found that interesting things tend to happen on this day. From the smaller miracles of a missing little girl being found years later when she had a little girl of her own, to the more outwards propositions of Kai asking me to help raise Lloyd's daughter with him. In my mind (or hard drives as the case may be), I do not see how Lloyd did not give the child to his mother or father, or even Sensei. Were they not more of blood than Kai? Did Lloyd have other theories in mind than the lifespan of his own family? No matter what had happened, after Lloyd had given the young child into Kai's guidance, he had disappeared along with our next generation's replacements; Emily, Jason, and Montgomery (who is Jay and Nya's son). We, as the past generation, tried our best to find Lloyd and the next generation but they seemed to have been lost. However, other matters stressed on. Sensei and Garmadon soon passed away over the loss of Lloyd and the next generation that seemed to be as strong as us, their precursors. Lloyd's daughter now had lost almost all of her family, and according to Kai's letter, she seemed to be quite aware of the disturbance.

'Her name is Minerva.' Kai explained in his letter. 'The long version being Minerva Florence Garmadon, just as Lloyd told me so don't ask. He had shortly explained that it was a way of hinting at her heritage when she is older. I don't get it, but you and I know that Lloyd had his reasons... insane as they are to us. Emily also seemed rather silent, isn't her middle name Florence too?'

To me (after extending certain logic perimeters), it sounded as if Emily could have been the mother, but I have so far kept that theory to myself.

Kai concluding his letter with a request for me to come help oversee the young child's development, as if I would know much about the subject. But I could not turn down a friend in need, no less the child of a friend who was currently missing in action. So now I have fully packed everything and will begin the trip to Kai's home with Falcon tomorrow, weather permitting. I will begin writing down daily or weekly musings of Minvera's development for a reference in the future, or if she wishes to know about her childhood when she will inevitably be too old to fully remember them properly.

I will discuss with Kai on how we shall tell her of me being a Nindroid... or of how to explain her own birth.