Anna pulled Vyre's face back gently and stared into Vyre's eyes.<span style="color: #4da6ff">"i s-said i like seeing what she l-looked like in the m-mirror... y-you have m-made a huge l-leap from that s-small admission. n-no, i d-don't think m-my parents w-would approve, at l-least n-not at first. papa only ever w-wanted me t-to be happy, i d-don't know what m-my mother would have w-wanted, b-but they were b-both f-followers of the l-light. w-we can t-talk to Order l-later."</span><br/><br/>Relene was shaking with rage when Ras grabbed her and she snarled angrily. "then just do it! run away and leave me alone! you cant keep popping back and making promises that you break! its not fair and i hate it! i would rather grow up loving the few brief visits i get from my father then have you promise to do better, to be better over and over... sooner or later those broken promises will make me hate you! i can barely stand to listen to your voice because you always lie to me! i just want to punch you in the mouth and i hate feeling that way. don't say it! don't tell me you will change because i do not believe you! every day of my life has been a chance for you to change, to be there, but you never are! i don't know how many chances you think you deserve but you are running out, i can't stand feeling this... this... whatever this terrible feeling is much longer. every broken promise, every lie... they are killing me."<br/><br/>Sharindia frowned and looked at Ras for a moment before she took a deep breath.<span style="color: #003366">"because he is the only man i have ever found who not only could, but would kill me if i ever harmed our children. i know what i am, i know how dangerous my dark side is... i can look at the things i love, the behaviors i enjoy and know that they are wrong and i don't care, i feel no guilt over it and i would gleefully do it all again. but he would never let me harm our children. if your Sharindia could throw Vyre away when she is nothing like me, i did things that would make you puke and then attempt to kill me over to rescue my daughter from the clutches of that whore Azshara. i let things happen to her that broke her heart and mine because it was the only way to eventually secure her freedom."</span>she looked at Kitori and shook her head.<span style="color: #003366">"life isn't fair and the dead aren't happy, i have contacted Elune's vaunted afterlife... they are generally content and peaceful but they are not happy. they live in a gilded cage with all the dead people they love but they have nothing. they can't have sex, eat a good meal, take a hot bath, do a job... they don't even talk to each other. what is there to say when everything you ever talk about is gone? sure, the newly dead have their questions and for a while people talk but eventually everything that doesn't pertain to life is said and then there is nothing left to do but face eternity. personally i would choose life, with all its challenges, all it's complications and more importantly, all of it's pleasures."</span>she nodded and smiled a little as she looked at him.<span style="color: #003366">"i would appreciate that, and it will give you something to do in the immediate future... and perhaps in your journey you will find a place to belong." </span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>