Can it be unlearned in an instant? Immediately overridden? No?

[ Fandaniel already knows it can't be. Everything takes time. There never was enough time with Lily, just not enough... ]

I am the one who taught Lily pain. I do not regret it, precisely, but I have also tried to teach him love. To show him there is more than only that. Kindness, love, it takes so much longer to accept when you have never known it... when it has been revoked from you...

[ Why does that feel familiar? Had he lost kindness and love, at some point? But when? ]

But I do not think the two of us will ever agree. I will stand beside Lily until the end, even as all others withdraw from his side. It is simply what is meant to be.