That must have been hard. Surely she just wanted the best for you, but it wouldn't feel that way to a kid. [And she's seen enough of those generational scars to know how deeply they can run and how much they can sting. It's one of the main reasons that Lin's follow-up question makes Manuela pause for such a considerable amount of time.]

... I'm not sure. Whether I want to or not, I'm running out of time. I'd rather not see it as the reason to chase after a marriage, though...I do enough of that on my own already. [She laughs a little bit, able to treat the self-deprecation as a joke for once.] ...I doubt I'll be at Garreg Mach forever, but I might teach somewhere else down the line. Somewhere that really needs it more.