Ves experienced a sense of fulfillment after the birthday party came to an end.
Aurelia and the other kids had a lot of fun. What he was most pleased with was that his oldest daughter was not a doll and actively sought to participate in more grown-up affairs.
A part of Ves lamented that Aurelia did not make the most of her childhood to be a kid. The weight of expectations along with her abnormal development caused her to mature a lot faster than other kids of her age.
Still, the Red Ocean was nothing like the Milky Way during the Age of Mechs.
Red humanity lacked the strength to enforce peace. The native aliens were already bad enough. The arrival of the mutated voribugs put human civilization in the new frontier into an even more precarious situation.
As such, Aurelia herself already recognized that she could not afford to be carefree during her most formative years.
