estdeus_innobis | Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

[Thursday night, July 15 (day 410)]
[Tavern of Hell]

It's been an eventful night and between the repeated rounds of free drinks and congratulatory back-slaps, this is the first time I've been able to slip away. I light a smoke and lean against the wall, grinning like a loon.

I have a daughter.

I'm certain she's perfect, an upstart to her mother's place in my heart and I laugh at the thought, as one cannot replace the other and as such, I must have a bigger heart than I imagined to easily fit both. She's, without a doubt, the most beautiful creature in existence. Any child born of Milady Glass could be nothing less and having my genes in the mix is an added bonus.

Even without seeing her yet, I'm already madly in love with her and humbled by the miracle she is. There's a new peace in my soul, paling anything I've felt before as it effortlessly lights my deepest, darkest corners. Not since the day I married Milady Glass, have I felt this much joy. Do all new fathers feel this way, or am I the only blissed-out idiot on the planet?

I don't mind if anyone believes that because I have a daughter and even if they all have daughters as well, they don't have my daughter, and that makes all the difference. As soon as I'm able, I'll go to see her and my estranged love as well. I'd rather have peace and love between us, however we can manage it. The alternative isn't possible and I'll not bother to entertain it either. Why?

Because I have a daughter.

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