Ras ran his hands through his hair and leaned against the wall.<span style="color: #666600">"Because slow healing is the least traumatic and least painful way. I wasn't expecting you to have her climb into your lap, but I could feel how much it hurt you so I had to act. It shouldn't have caused you much more pain than you were already in and by now that pain should be almost gone."</span>He looked and Ibara and smiled.<span style="color: #666600">"I am your friend Ibara, and I care about you. You didn't ask for help but I still want to help you, the look you gave me when you showed me the letter from your mother was you telling me you needed her."</span>He then looked to her mother and shook his head.<span style="color: #666600">"I'm just trying to support you daughter instead of everyone else using her to support them. Does that make me a bad person?"</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>