The best parents become grandparents.
-Anonymous
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I find it most comforting when Misako comes to watch Minerva for a few or several hours. Kai is elated that he does not have to change any 'surprises' (although I am not sure why when I am usually the one set with the task), while I find myself more at ease to know that the two females have each other. In a way, there are all the family they have left. But I do wonder and process; for how much longer? Misako's health has... declined greatly since the fall of Sensei and Garmadon and the disappearance of Lloyd and the second generation. She appears as if she is 'a hop inside the grave' on many days and should not be doting on a child so young. But, as stated earlier, the two females enjoy each others company. The only thing that could separate the two generations would be death... but it is not wise to dwell on this concept long.
Misako has pushed on that since Minerva is now four months old, she should be able to enjoy the outdoors more. But we are to take it slow; a human baby can become overwhelmed quickly. So Kai and I have begun to rotate taking the baby girl to the park at different times of the day. Misako has also taken Minerva on outings. I feel it is due that she feels remorse (and/or remembers) leaving Lloyd at a young age, and is now horrified that his daughter now faces the same trial... albeit with certain variables. But to Misako, it is all the same. I can see it in her eyes.
On another, near related note, Jay and Nya have been recovering from their loss of Lloyd and their son, Montgomery, over these months. Nya refused to try for another, insisting that Montgomery was enough and no other child will replace who he was or is. Jay can not argue, and how could he really? He had trusted Lloyd to protect Montgomery, even when his boy was fully trained at the time, and yet they were all gone. Disappeared off the Earth with no sign of coming or being back. In a type of grief state, Nya and Jay come to visit young Minerva as well to take a turn at lending a hand to raise her. It is odd though, why hasn't Cole come forward to either see Lloyd's daughter or even question where he had gone for all these years. All of us are here, to watch this human baby as if she was actually Lloyd's reincarnation to tell us what has become of him, but Cole still has yet to be seen.
None of us has seen him since we had failed to find Lloyd and the second generation. I'm sure Falcon could find him for us so we can all sit down and talk for the first time in... well... ages.
