On the bright side, the real Liam Kincaid actually was alive and well, just deep undercover, and had eventually given Liam his blessing to keep using his name?

"I don't know," he admitted. "It's mine, in the sense that it's the only name I've had for the six years I've been alive, but at the same time... it's missing something. Othlia." Inheritance, family, what came before.