The shared dream of the Nester family was to one day map out the entirety of Eventide, with some even taking it a step further to wish for a map encompassing all dimensions, including Eventide.
Ulysses had begun to doubt that dream from the moment he watched his father and other extended relatives of his die in an unknown place.
That doubt only grew as he returned to Scholastica to learn of the death of not only his mother, but also a sister he knew nothing about.
This meant that he was the last member of his family, an orphan in a sense.
Sure, the extended Nester family still existed out there, but the nuclear unit that consisted of his father, his mother, his sister, and him now only had him to serve as a reminder that such a unit once existed.
It was a terrible thing, terrible enough to force him to decide not to continue on the path of a Nester.
