<span style="color: #ffff00">"that is not sufficient reason to take them from her."</span>she shrugged and shook her head.<span style="color: #ffff00">"you're lucky I'm too tired to care about your insults."</span>she vanished without waiting for Emily to sling another one.<br/><br/>Ashia took a deep breath and shook her head.<span style="color: #404040">"i have two choices, excise Ras from my life at any cost or die. if you choose to be one of those costs then so be it. if you choose to take the children the only thing i could do to prevent that would be to kill you which i won't do so i have to accept that cost as well. what i will gain is freedom from a monster who abuses me at every turn and he doesn't even deny it. do i fucking look happy about this? if you take the children i will add headstones to my graveyard and mourn them but i have an entire village of children who need me alive which is no longer possible if Ras is in my life in any way."</span>she looked at the children with longing before shaking her head and stood up.<span style="color: #404040">"if you decide to leave i will give you all the help i can and then leave you in peace." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>