>>5151833Heh, I'm also thinking of another possibility. Gardy didn't have magic back then. Our fusion with him has drastically improved his potential. Back then, perhaps he could only guarantee the safety of his charge over this Usha character and thus logically chose Devona and abandoned Usha.
It probably ate at him ever since. If only he could use the pearls. If only he could have been more inventive or imaginative. Pushed his own body and nature in some way he didn't, couldn't do at that time.
He wanted to follow that order, he wanted to obey, but at that moment there was only one person he could save. Either Devona or Usha. He had to pick and he picked Devona, his original and ultimate charge. Devona didn't like it, *he* didn't like it, but what else could he do?
Now, now things are different. He may not be here in point of fact/soul but we are and we have things he didn't then. We can do the thing he truly wished to do at that fateful moment.
What's our sync ratio with Gardy at the moment?