<span style="color: #666600">"You were made to be together? Bayne is fucking a sentient plant. I don't know what your daughter's 'star' name is, I'm pretty sure whatever it is it's not the other half of 'flora'." </span>The'kal was slow to respond and even slower to look back at her mate, her gaze on the ground.<span style="color: #666600">"Because that's not how I... their lives are bound to mine, they're ghosts, specters of their former selves. My energy replaced their very being. It's why I haven't claimed any new priests. If I disconnect from them they simply... stop existing. Their friends and family will lose them and have no idea what happened, no closure no... nothing." </span>Ras looked between the two with a sigh of relief and nodded. "Thank you for understanding. I don't know my mother's past and I don't want to know, but I do know how she feels about your kind. I think these priests she has are the biggest cause of her troubles."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>