Alcuin hesitated, and then said, "Look, just to be clear, even... hypothetically, if there was some future where you and I could be together in a way that might look... normal, I wouldn't ask you to give him up. I don't know how he feels about such things, of course."

Though if he had to be completely honest with himself, a world without Hannibal and where Aaron chose Kersen over him was rather scary.