<span style="color: #4d4dff">“I don’t know that... my instincts say you’re wrong and that I have to do what I’m told. I do want to learn but it’s hard, it feels like my head doesn’t hold all the things you teach me. I understand, I would never put the children at risk. Especially my siblings, Father would hate me forever.”</span>She nodded slowly and kissed her mother’s chest.<span style="color: #4d4dff"> “I forgive you. I’ll always forgive you.”</span>While the family hugged Lorna would feel a light scratching near where her torso met her deer half. Nail’s hatching had curled up asleep on the dryad but weighed so little she had gone completely unnoticed while Lorna was distracted with Kitori.<span style="color: #4d4dff">“Are you still going to hit me? I won’t run away.”</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>