Why the hell would they keep quiet about something as important as that? ...For the same reason Mom and Dad never really brought it up again after that first promise we were going to do whatever we could ot make me 'normal' again. Because no one wants to destroy someone's chance at happiness.

She had, however, picked up on his embarassment. Being able to read one Goliath was pretty much like being able to read another, after all. Not to mention she still occasionally nutured the same thoughts, about leaving humanity behind. "Look, Goliath... Neither of us had a choice in what happened to us. We both chose to make something out of it and followed our hearts. There's nothing wrong, nothing to be ashamed of, in that."