Aurora

May 1490 PD

Matthew arrived today. This little bundle, an infant, with dark brown hair, light brown eyes. He could almost be mistaken for the blood sibling of my other children. Not that it matters, because he is my son now just as much as the other two.

There's a saying here on Terra. "Blood is thicker than Water." It generally means that your blood relations are more important than your non-blood relations. But I've discovered that it's not the full saying. It is a shortened version that flipped the meaning. It should be "The Blood of the Covenant is thicker than the Water of the Womb." Meaning, the family you choose is more important than the family you are born into. And I apply that here. Just because I did not give birth to Matthias, it doesn't mean he is any less my son. And I intend to raise him as such.