Salsabil: Father, do you want to know who your father really is?
Omar: I don't need to, but why bring this up?
Salsabil: As you know, I can see the present, past, and future, and I know everything about your father.
Omar: I understand what you mean, and I know too.
Salsabil: What do you know?
Omar: That he was the one who planned all this, that he is not "Tariq," and I know well that he might not even love me. And even if he does love me, I know that, at the very least, he didn't want to meet me.
Salsabil: But do you really not want to know where he is or how he's doing? I can connect you with him.
Omar: Do you think I couldn't have found out, my sweet? I am a game piece, not the player, and that's what I love... and that's what I love about my father.
Salsabil: What do you mean?
Omar: I may just be a game piece, but I am certainly happy that I was a piece in my father's hands, and I'm glad the end of this game was exactly what I wanted. I certainly know that if I were with him, I would have been happy. But what is the use of happiness without this suffering that led me to my beautiful Hova? And without this suffering, how would I have reached you two?
Salsabil: ...
Omar: Did you meet him?
Salsabil: Yes.
Omar: And what did he tell you?
(Omar falls silent for a moment, then smiles at her)
Omar: My dear, he and I have the same mind and the same methods. He doesn't want me and I don't want him, not because we hate each other, but because we understand that he is doing his mission and I am doing mine.
(Tears begin to fall from Salsabil's eyes)
Omar: Why are you crying?
Salsabil: Isn't this too much? To know that he knows about the suffering you're going through and does nothing, and you know how much you've struggled, and now you can meet him but you don't want to?
Omar: I know one thing from a letter left for me, which I only understood today, Salsabil. My name is Omari Janus Arcadian, but I haven't considered myself another person since the day I married Hova. I am Omar Tariq, and I don't care about anything else anymore, because I am finally with you in a quiet life with my family.
(A faint smile appears on both their faces)
Here ends the final side chapter of Sword of Eternity: The Long Covenant's Journey