"Unfortunately, even among parents who try, many are imperfect," Neuvilette replies. "To say nothing of those who might become parents while serving their sentences, rather than after." A mother who is living in the Fortress by choice can leave; less so one who lives there by sentence, at least under the current system.

A headache he hopes to put off at least a few months longer, but certainly can't avoid forever.

"Many superstitions have some root in the truth, but that one more than most," Neuvillette says. "If the flood has not yet occurred in your Fontaine, then it is still in effect; it was only through the restoration of my Authority that the people of Fontaine could become true humans, no different from the people of other nations. Prior to that, they were children of the seas - self-deceiving Oceanids given human shape through Egeria's power, a miracle which perpetuated itself through the Fountain even after her death." He doesn't feel nearly as concerned with revealing this as he does the difference between 'Focalors' and 'Furina' - it is not knowledge that will jeopardize the former's plans. "Exposure to Primordial Seawater causes that deception, if one were to call it that, to unravel, and the person in question to become inert water. Those from other nations are true humans already; that is why they are unaffected."