The queen also told Ron and Barry about Diana's past. The rest could be skipped over; the key was that Diana had always deeply loved Steve, and his departure had been far too sudden. For a long time, Diana had been unable to accept it. Even now, no one knew whether she had truly let go.
For long-lived beings, they could choose not to accept it. Letting themselves wallow in grief for centuries was perfectly normal. Even though Steve had been dead for a long time, to Diana, it was as if only yesterday had passed. So if Steve were resurrected, it was easy to imagine Diana losing control.
After learning about Diana's romantic history from the Amazon queen, Ron understood that this was the worst-case scenario.
Family and lovers were not quite the same. Everyone had imagined their elders leaving them, because even if they did not want to admit it, birth, aging, illness, and death were simply part of life. One could prepare for the loss of family.
But lovers were different. Everyone dreamed of growing old with the one they loved and entering death together. That was why sudden separation at the height of passion seemed especially tragic.
Although Ron had also lost his wife and daughter, they had already passed the stage of passionate love by then. They had built a stable family and preferred to see one another as inseparable family. Dr. Stone and Eleanor were much the same; their lives had settled into a quiet warmth.
But Diana and Steve were different. They had been deeply in love when they parted, and the world had been in turmoil then, with wars breaking out constantly. They spent more time apart than together, and their love, hatred, joys, and sorrows had been tangled with their countries