"That's different and you know it. Ven... that Ven... he's not a Master yet. He's still a kid. And I'm not tearing myself apart," she said gently. A deep breath. "But if I did merge with another me, and we shared her place... what happens when Terra and Ven and the others do come back? I can't abandon them, or the new world I'll have found. But I can't have both."