<span style="color: #336600">”What you were born as is irrelevant, who you have become is what matters. Vyre was a weapon and is now a loving mother, you were adjacent to an animal now you are force of justice and a new parent. I understand your concerns but Vyre will be fine. Some temporary memory suppression is one of the kinder things her mind has had to endure.”</span>She moved around the table and took a seat.<span style="color: #336600">“I never said you were incapable of raising your children. I can see they are all happy and healthy, except for one of the Whites who seems to be a little under the weather. Spite doesn’t see you or the others capable of being equal to Chiren, but she’s not acting out of malice, it’s misplaced parental instinct. Just like Ras. To put it in mortal terms, they have the children’s best interests at heart but they haven’t pulled their heads out of their asses to cooperate with you.”</span>She stared at Ashia and took a deep breath.<span style="color: #336600"> “Okay.”</span>She stood up and held out her arms. The room began to spin around and a bright light flashed. When the light vanished they were all sitting on Ras’ roof, or an image of it, and sitting on a corner facing the sunrise was a small statue of a dragonling hatchling.<span style="color: #336600"> “A trophy? This is his way of mourning.” </span>A partially transparent image of Ras appeared beside the statue with a bottle of beer. He sat down next to the statue and began to talk to it, telling it about Chiren and her siblings and what they had done that day. He also told it about Ashia and how great she was and how much the statue would have loved her.<span style="color: #336600">“He doesn’t hate you. He likes you, respects you. His pain and shame are so great that he can’t face you like a man, so he tries to push you away so you can’t see what he considers to be weakness. He believes you’ll mock him and he knows Vyre would.”</span>The images remained for a little while then vanished as Trinity looked at Ashia.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>