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Zarya

on Nov. 20, 2013

The problem with being dead is watching others grow old and die. Astor
never wanted to be friends with Meg, but once Meg figured out his game
the friendship was inevitable. Of course, why did Astor help Meg when he
didn’t want a friend…he was kind of, sort of starting to tell the truth way back in Chapter 4. Meg
really is the last of a lineage, a lineage stemming from Astor’s
brother. She’ll never know. He’d never tell. Astor’s been secretly and
not so secretly helping out the descendents of his brother’s family for
generations. He hasn’t always been successful, Meg wouldn’t be the last
surviving family member if he was, but helping gave his afterlife some
focus. Since Meg and Astor float in and out of the story, very little of
their history will ever be touched on in the plot.