<span style="color: #ff00ff">"So she was cursed by an Eternal, an evil one, and... instead of obeying its command to kill her daughter, she threw the child into a river so that it might survive? The'kal is depraved and short-sighted. How does her father feel about that? Or is that why she lives in a barn with livestock and riding beasts?" </span>Athena sighed softly and Sharindia would feel her hair become far less pliable for a moment.<span style="color: #ff00ff"> "Because I... she kissed me, I liked it because she smelled nice and I got to be closer to her. I don't know what I like because I've lived in a shelter for most of my life, I could never stray too far from mother and father gave me a medicine to keep me from going into heat. But it also made me not really want to meet other people."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>