Ethan's heart felt heavy as he listened to his children, and although their voices were firm and full of confidence, a deep weight pressed down on his chest while his thoughts refused to settle and kept circling around the same fear again and again.
Sending one or two of them to the battlefield was not a problem, because if something went wrong, he could still step in and pull them out in time, but sending many of them at once was a completely different matter, and it was not something he could take lightly no matter how strong he was.
If two or three of them fell into danger at the same time, then who would he save, and how would he even choose?
That single thought was enough to tear apart any parent's heart, and it stayed in his mind like a shadow that would not fade no matter how much he tried to ignore it.
And what made it worse was something he could not escape.
