Relene looked at Kitori and bit her lip for a moment. "for the same reason i hurt father... sometimes, when someone is really, really hurt, in their heart i mean, they start hurting other people who want to help them. dad used to ignore me all the time, he was never home because he was always solving everyone's problems so i started to feel like he hated me. it hurt so much that even when he did try to spend time with me i was so hurt and angry i hurt him back, which made him think i didn't want him to spend time with me so he spent even less time with me. on and on that went, him being gone more, me getting more hurt so i treated him even worse, him leaving more because he thought i hated him. it got so bad that i hurt myself, i was so angry that i burnt my face off by accident. Athena watched her mother get murdered, she watched her father get crippled and she was raised in isolation by two incredibly broken people. then she was ripped away from the only people she loved and thrown in with the Vyre of this world who is a monster. Vyre hurts everyone around her so she hurt Athena too. now Athena is so afraid of losing people that she hurts people to make them leave before she cares about them so it won't hurt when they are gone. its hard to stop doing that over and over again, sometimes i still get the urge to say something mean to dad for what happened before even though he has been so much better since he started staying home. if dad hated you he wouldn't have brought you here, he would have left you wherever you were no matter how bad it was there."<br/><br/><span style="color: #00ffff">"give it your best shot little sister."</span>she waved one hand returning Athena's hair to a normal state and held her all the tighter.<span style="color: #00ffff">"is that what you want? do you want me to take you outside and fight you? i will even give your armor back for the battle if you like, but when i win there will be no more threats of violence."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>