<span style="color: darkgreen">"Good because it makes my opinion of you worse when you make it sound like you're with him for his money and power. Of course, even if you were it's not my place to say anything about it, he seems happy with you so that's all that matters I suppose." </span>He nodded once.<span style="color: darkgreen">"They were, but they also didn't have your power at their disposal, they were just average people trying to get by. Sometimes I wonder how The'kal sleeps at night, I wonder if she's haunted by the voices of the mothers she couldn't help, to this day I know I am but the voices are a little more... angry. It was just a random thought, I don't know anything about her mental or physical condition, or if she's even still alive."<br/>
</span><br/>Ras caught Whisperia as she passed him and pulled her close. "I wouldn't have if you hadn't been arrested. Not even Nyaka knows this and she was with me nearly every day. Visiting you at night, even though you slept, was the only joy I ever had back then... I'm ashamed to say it but I've seen you as my mother longer than you've known my name. It's also why I never made any moves on you when we lived together back on the bay. The thought of repaying my debt to you was what kept me going. Weeks without food, days without clean water, hiding in every shadow in fear of my own life and Nyaka's. Praying that my stomach didn't growl when someone got too close... I wanted to kill myself, to just die no matter how painfully and get it over with, but holding your hand made all the pain go away." He smiled softly and kissed her forehead. "But enough of that kind of talk, Relene is still waiting outside with her gift from the Flight Master so I need to get going soon. Why don't you drag Arlokk and Amere outside while I go get Amber so she can say goodbye?"<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>