Nyx groaned softly and slowly slid off the table and onto her hooves where she stumbled on her hooves but a gust of wind caught her.<span style="color: #b3b300">"Yeah, yeah I'm just... a little lightheaded still. I'm okay, I think." </span>Her vocabulary had greatly improved and she looked at the mirrors with a frown.<span style="color: #b3b300">"What am I supposed to be?"</span>She looked down at herself and ran one hand through her feathers.<span style="color: #b3b300">"This is more than just a bit, I look like a turkey."</span><br/><br/>Ras kissed Sharindia softly and nodded. "If you're not enjoying it it means you've become a much better person." He listened to her with a frown and sighed again. Kitori had been struggling violently since Sharindia had left her but her eyes lit up when she spot Ras.<span style="color: #a64dff">"Father! Please! Let me go, let me out of this place!" </span>Ras cupped his daughter's head in both hands and kissed her forehead softly. "I want to. I want to take you inside, make you a hot meal, and make up for all the time we've lost but I can't."<span style="color: #a64dff">"Why not!?" </span>"Because you're still too much like your mother, you're too aggressive and there's still too much hatred in your heart. I know you would never want to hurt your siblings but I can't trust you, and if you did I would never forgive you. If you become your mother I'll exile you from our family and you'll never see me or your family again." The pain in Kitori's eyes was more than anything Sharindia had managed to draw from her even as Ras continued to hold his daughter. "Sharindia is going to help you, she'll take away the parts of you that are like your mother and make it so you can live with us safely. Please cooperate with her, follow her instructions and when she's done... when my baby girl is safe and ready to come inside I'll give you this back." Her dagger appeared in his hand and he tucked it away in his robes.<span style="color: #a64dff"> "F-father, please..."</span>"Kitori, be a good girl. I'll come back to visit you as long as Sharindia says you're being good and making progress." He looked to Sharindia as Kitori let her head fall and began to sob.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>