[With his powers in tact and his control in place, things don't generally rattle around Erik anymore unless he wants them too. So that things tip over on the desk five feet away says something.
He stands, unable - unwilling - to sit and think it through. He thinks of Anya - not the young woman here, but the little girl who had called him Daddy on Sanitarium Island. Maybe he'd been a monster there - he had been - but he'd been a monster with a family. He'd had Magda, and Anya, and the memories had largely faded around the edges, but he remembered how it felt.
He would have slaughtered an entire village for that little girl.]
And? [Was there retribution, did she hate her father for doing nothing, what?]
[Spam]
He stands, unable - unwilling - to sit and think it through. He thinks of Anya - not the young woman here, but the little girl who had called him Daddy on Sanitarium Island. Maybe he'd been a monster there - he had been - but he'd been a monster with a family. He'd had Magda, and Anya, and the memories had largely faded around the edges, but he remembered how it felt.
He would have slaughtered an entire village for that little girl.]
And? [Was there retribution, did she hate her father for doing nothing, what?]