[o] [SE] sins, like skeletons, are so very hard to hide

Who was it that led you on
And makes you want to hurt me so?

To hear the Mara’s brother was an Ascended gave Liam pause. Perhaps there was a time when he’d have blamed any Ascended for his family’s death, but that time had long since passed. War was messy and ugly and raw, and the people fighting it didn’t always have a choice in who their enemies were. To hold past loyalties against a man he didn’t even know - and who sounded like a good person, if Maea’s story was to be believed - was not something Liam would be able to live with.

So he merely listened, offering Maea the same courtesy she had shown him. ”He sounds like a good man,” he said. ”I hope that, one day, you will find him again.” And that time had been kind to him, wherever he was.

Who do you want to forget?
Who forgot you long ago?

Liam