Seeing the deadpan stares he was receiving, Merlin let his words trail off before explaining, "I have been looking for potential solutions but, as the entity known as Shirou Emiya is no longer within this timeline, my options have been rather limited. More than anything else, that young lady desires a family that will look after and loves her with sincerity. Though she has already lived for nearly thirty solar cycles, her closest 'family' has been a berserk Heroic Spirit. When she was just a child, her mother became the vessel for the Lesser Grail while, having betrayed the Einzberns, her father was prevented from ever seeing her. She spent ten years training in isolation, surrounded by frigid temperatures and even colder inhuman existences. By the time she had a chance at happiness, her life had been robbed while, what little hope she had found, was crushed completely. Imagine how she must have felt when, after spending years recuperating in a vat of fluid, the first thing she hears upon awakening is that she must become a sacrifice once again? Even worse, the only family she had left was already dead...truly, I cannot fathom the depravity of the Einzberns...forcing so much on such a small child..."