- "Yo look at this deadbeat shut-in who has so little of a life that he spends his time writing fanfiction about a game that came out like five years ago." -me. -

"Hmm… Yeah, she's out cold." Lissa said, "She's not gonna wake up for at least couple hours."

Then Sully spoke up, "Sheesh Robin, you really scared the crap out of her, grabbing her like that."

"I know, I just… I had to something."

Robin was still resting Morgan's upper body in his arms. Say'ri was sitting next to him, with Lissa on Morgan's opposite side. The remainder of their company, including several guards that had come over to watch the incident, surrounded them and looked on from a distance.

Then, Say'ri spoke up, "Robin, I'm sorry, I didn't think she would react like that."

She was going to say more, but then Robin spoke up, "It's fine, it's not your fault, it's just…" He paused a moment to look at Morgan.

"... It's like she was a completely different person, right?" He looked first at Say'ri, then at the others. "Have you ever seen her yell like that? Or even heard her swear? She just sounded so… hopeless. It's nothing like I've always known Morgan..."

He looked back at the unconscious body in his arms, only now noticing that she had sprouted a few grey hairs, and said, "Oh Gods, what have I done?"

"It was not your fault, darling." Say'ri said.

"I know, but it didn't need to… What if I had just-"

Then, Chrom cut him off, "Mourning over the past and asking 'what if' is only going to make all of us more miserable. I'm sorry about Morgan, really I am, but frankly, everyone here was shocked by your returning."

Robin looked at Chrom, seeming rather insulted that he would underrate the importance of his own daughter's reaction.

"But I guarantee that everyone else in the Shepherds will be extremely happy about it, and you shouldn't let the response of one person ruin your mood on the one day that you of all people deserve to be happy. Even if that person is Morgan."

Robin considered this for a moment, then responded, "But do I really deserve to be happy right now? I mean for the love of Naga, look at what I've done to my own daughter…"

Suddenly, Stahl spoke up from a little ways behind Chrom, simply saying, "Uh, guys?"

Everyone turned to face him, and Chrom responded, "Yes, Stahl?"

"For what it's worth," he continued, "Morgan wasn't upset because you came back, let alone that you left in the first place, but rather because she thought she was having another dream, and didn't want to wake up from it… So when she does wake up and figures out that it was real, she'll be happy, right?"

Robin considered this statement for a while, as did everyone. They shrugged and tilted their heads back and forth in thought, until finally Chrom spoke up again,

"At any rate, Robin, we can bring Morgan to her bed, and whenever she wakes up we'll have someone lead her down to wherever you are that point. But right now, you should head into the dining room, and see the rest of the Shepherds before someone else tells them you're back and ruins whatever surprised you've got cooked up for them."

Everyone chuckled at this, including Robin, before he looked back at Morgan for a moment and said, "Believe it or not, I didn't have anything in mind yet, but you're still right."

He slowly laid Morgan's head down and stood up, along with Say'ri.

"Let's go pay the others a visit."

Chrom nodded once, ordered two nearby guards to carry Morgan up to her room (and to do so with great care), and then began leading the group to the dining room.

Robin did end up putting together a small plan to introduce himself; it began with Chrom entering alone and, right inside the door he came through, asking for everyone's attention. Once the entire dining hall was quiet, without saying a word, Chrom opened the door, and held it open as Robin walked in, with Say'ri at his side. Immediately everyone in the room was shocked, and there was a brief moment of complete and utter silence before Robin said,

"So what's the big idea with having a holiday dedicated entirely to me, when I'm the only person who doesn't get an invitation?"

At this point, Robin held on tightly to Say'ri, as he didn't want to get disconnected from her in the mass of people who began moving towards them. The first person to reach him was Nowi, who had an unfair head start because she was already on that side of the room. After that was Cynthia, then Olivia, then, much to Robin's surprise, Lucina. The latter three all hugged him excitedly, although Nowi more jumped on him like an animal than hugged him. The remainder of the room was either too slow to get a hand on him, or simply stood by and cheered.

It was a beautiful moment for the Shepherds, but especially for Robin. It told him that what he did was right, and that he had no reason to question it. Robin knew better than to let the past weigh heavily on him, but to have all of his friends here without a single negative thing to say about his actions expelled any regret he could have possibly had. At no point did anyone have something to say about how their lives were worse off in his absence, instead only speaking of how much better they were going to be now that he had returned, and no one subscribed to that belief more than the woman at his side.