Flora nodded with a sad whine.<span style="color: #00ff00">"she could protect me... but if i upset her she could kill me..."</span>she looked at him before she looked away.<span style="color: #00ff00">"you dont know what its like being terrified all the time... of everyone and everything... i actively prevent any kind of life that could become sentient from evolving on my world because mortals scare me just as much as Eternals do... if i hadnt been at the heights of passion i would have been terrified by the thought of being pregnant... im not qualified to be a mother, im too frightened by the universe to show it to a chld... if i hadnt lost the child i would have let Elerona have it or i would have hidden it away on my planet and taught it to be as afraid of everything as i am... i would be a terrible mother. im not in a shell, im just afraid of everything."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>