<span style="color: #a64dff">“How can I turn to you and Kitori when the reason I want to leave in the first place is your patient and niece? I would have to make you choose between us and that wouldn’t be fair to you. So I made the hard choice, I left so you could help Karrie because she’s your family.” </span>Elerona rolled her eyes as they approached Ophidian and she grabbed him by one tendril to kiss him softly.<span style="color: #8000ff">“It’s good to see you too, you big lug. Zelina and I came here for some junk food and... well we heard everything. Is there anything we can do to help?”</span><span style="color: #a64dff">“You’re Karrie’s mother, aren’t you?”</span><span style="color: #8000ff">“One of them, yeah.” </span><span style="color: #a64dff">“Then go be a mother and deal with your child!”</span><span style="color: #8000ff">“Uh, what exactly do you want me to do? You’re the one having issues from what it sounds like.” </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>