"I understand. Even I had to step back and just let her live her life. The love we shared is gone, the friendship... Nyaka and Sellendra are still happy with her so that's all that matters I guess."<br/><br/><span style="color: #ff0000">"Sounds like Zelina is failing you then, she's probably not doing anything useful with her free time. It's not like you have children to worry about." </span>While her words were still cruel, without the warlock they lacked any real venom.<span style="color: #ff0000">"I'm sure Ras would welcome you as family, he accepts everyone. I'm not a teacher so I doubt I could help you and I cooked most of my own meals because Ras was always absent from my life... More would nice, but I'm throwing any mushy carrots at you."</span><br/><br/>The'kal frowned but nodded.<span style="color: #666600">"Then we'll both need to be down in the village. And my priestesses should be making their presence known to all the women there and collecting the eggs from the ones who didn't want to keep them. But you need to make time for me... I've missed you so much."</span><br/><br/>The'kal blinked and nodded quickly<span style="color: #666600">. "Of course! I'm sorry, I didn't fully know what was happening between you two and thought... I understand. If Ophidian makes any more breakthroughs do you want me to tell you? Or should I just pretend like she doesn't exist for a while?"</span>She smiled at Rachel and nodded again.<span style="color: #666600"> "It warms my heart that you feel that way. I'll admit... I wasn't sure about you being a mother but Ana has experience so I knew your family as a unit would be fine. Now I know you'll make a great mother too."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>