Apparently, they are meant to make up for whatever failings you have. I don't agree with it. If we're meant to be stuck in this arrangement, we should be able to stand on our own two feet. [Agreement doesn't change the facts of the matter. Lexa despises it, and has since the day she first woke up, left with a mixture of different perspectives in her mind.

But she feels the hollowness in her existence now. It unsettles her.]

But what I want and what is true are two different things. Your brood is now a part of your identity now.