He hadn't had what you'd call a perfect childhood, being the son of the boss that owned a nation wide criminal organization.

[updated; no more coding errors] "Mary, meeting you was the best thing that could have happened to me. Ever. I still love you. I always will, Mary. But you've got to accept this. When…When I'm gone, remember that the moments we spent together will always be timeless. And I'll be smiling down at you every second I'm up there."

She'd think about her family sometimes, cocooned in her small room and surrounded by books. She'd always wanted one. But maybe she'd found one in this bunch of eccentric siblings. [updated; no more coding issues]

With realization flooding in, with Jack standing and watching eerily from behind, and in the utter hopelessness of the moment, she kissed him.

Around a year after the Goldenrod incident, Lyra decides to travel to other regions, leaving Silver alone. Meanwhile, Team Rocket doesn't seem to have dissolved completely. Rather, they seem very interested in a certain redheaded trainer. Silver finds himself at crossroads where he must choose to either be the bad he'd always been or the good he was trying to be.