<span style="color: #336600">"I understand. Then we will sit here and watch the ocean waves until Delithia wakes and you can relax. Whether it takes two days or two weeks, we will keep the harpies fed and I will keep you in my embrace."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #5900b3">"All I can do is worry while I'm here and powerless." </span>She squeezed Anna as much as she could pulled the covers over them.<span style="color: #5900b3">"I'll try to calm down... I'll really try but I don't trust her anymore, I can't."</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #4d4dff">"If father wanted you dead you would be a pair of boots. He is just kind and forgiving to things like you and me." </span>She looked at her mother and shook her head.<span style="color: #4d4dff">"Respect is earned. Stupid lizard doesn't deserve respect." </span>She wandered off back towards the stables but something moving in the grass caught her attention and she ran after it. Athena shrank a little under Ashia's yelling but she didn't back up or move.<span style="color: #cc99ff"> "Vyre isn't pregnant. Your parasite eggs aren't children and that's why people are so happy to rid the world of them. You... you won't intimidate me. If Anna calls for me I will see her, I won't make her sad anymore. I may be stupid and scared and weak, but she is my mother."</span>She slowly looked up and met Ashia's eyes with her own.<span style="color: #cc99ff"> "I won't let you take me away from my mother, that would only hurt her more. I don't care if you hate me for the rest of your life but you're stuck with me for the rest of Anna's."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>