"Yes, but I think it is more complicated than just, 'Fate made it this way,'" Tristan said cautiously. "I do believe in a type of fate and that it does influence our lives, but that does not excuse us from our choices and actions. Bad things can and will happen, and perhaps we are fated to experience them, but that does not mean we should pout in the corner and lame fate for how terrible things are. I suppose I also believe in preternatural gifts, as well, and that we do not always discover what those gifts are, and sometimes even if we know what they are, we do not always have to follow those gifts. At least, not in the way the typical person might believe we should. As for your first question about growing up in a group of people who have done something... well, that is the eternal argument of nature versus nature, isn't it? I think it is a bit of both, though not always equally balanced."