I was reminiscing about the events in the first part of the novel, which I read a while ago, and I found myself thinking that, among the few people who know about the transmigration, Cale never told anyone about the curse he received from the White Star, did he? I'm almost certain it was information that remained in his internal monologue.
The point is that Cale lives with three people directly linked to the existence of this curse that destroyed his life and prevented him from having any stable, lasting relationship. Cale seems to be oblivious to it, but if the others knew, would they think and act the same way? Raon and Eden are literally the reasons the curse was created and cast, beginning the cycle of reincarnation. And both were saved by Cale, freed from their dark destinies and given the chance to live the life they wanted, becoming his children and gaining a family that loved them. Not that they were in any way to blame for what happened, but one way or another, it was their very existence that caused the curse. How would they react upon discovering the cause of their father's life of suffering? And then there's Sherrit, who did everything in her power to protect her eggs, from choosing death to seeking help from a god. She was the one who devised the curse, who decided the details of the punishment that would befall anyone who harmed her children. And in the end, the curse, laden with her hatred, also reached the person who saved her children, who allowed her to meet Raon after a thousand years of believing she had lost him forever, who gave her the chance to be close to her children and have something closer to a life.
It is such a cruel irony of fate that what was meant to protect only served to hurt, and that in the end, the one who was hurt was the one who truly protected.
How would Sherrit feel if she knew the truth? What would she think if she discovered that Cale's entire miserable life, where he had nothing and no one, was influenced by her choices? That the kind, caring, and protective person who showed her children the good side of the world, who gave them back hope and a smile, who showed them that life was worth living, endured hell while growing up because she decided to create a curse of misery and suffering that only served to help a madman blinded by ambition to cause harm to those who didn't deserve it?
