Ah, the strangeness of time travel and gender swaps?
I suppose. In my defence, I didn’t know she existed. I wasn’t deliberately absent. The job does by definition make you rather hard to contact. It’s a long story though.
Madeleine. I don’t know why I keep saying “her mother”. Her name is Madeleine.
That’s true. I lost my own parents as a child, and I suppose what helped was schooling and loving guardians around.I’ll give her a week at least. She deserves that much.