"I don't expect that you'll give up the life you already have for a new one with me as your father...but I welcome the chance to know you, and to show you that I am a man different from what many think of me.
I admit, I am difficult to know, and I keep few friends. I can be...difficult, vengeful, and proud, above all else." he says, looking away from her for a moment. Everything he says is what he's heard from others, both to his face and behind his back.
"But I am also loyal and caring. I am proud of who I am, who I have been, and where I come from. I am proud of the people I love. I was proud of your mother, the person and Queen she was, the friend to me she was, and I am glad that she and I had the time we did together." he says.
"And I am proud of you, Marrina. You stood in my defense, knowing what you knew about my...enmity of the surface world. You came to rescue me when you could have left it to anyone else.
I hope, in time, you will be proud to call me your father as well." he says. He smiles for a moment, the walks back across the room a small chest near the window where he first stood. He removes something from the chest, and returns to stand in front of Marrina.
"This was to be your mother's, before...her passing." he says, holding in both of his hands a necklace of small precious stones and shells. There is a golden crest at the bottom of this necklace, and he offers it to her.
"So long as you wear this, you will be known as my daughter, and a Princess of Atlantis. If you choose to return again at anytime, simply display this crest, and you will be admitted into my presence without delay." he says, holding it forth.
He silently hopes she will accept it.
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