And that's when Xavier saw it.
Cornelia's gaze flickered and he no longer saw her as some supreme sorceress. He saw her as a lonely woman who was estranged from her daughter, despite caring deeply for her.
"She even takes after me in personality," Cornelia remarked. She told him, "I watched her grow up, I check on her when I miss her, but in all truth I don't really know much about her. I just saw parts of her life, and I wasn't there to watch her grow up in person. You must know something about her."
'So she made me come all the way here to discuss Madeline, seems right,' Xavier thought to himself, surprised Cornelia wasn't interrogating him or something and seeing if he was good enough for her daughter.
