She watched as he presented the box, which had quite a fill in it! In a way she was simultaneously disappointed and impressed... but she took the box from him anyway, looking it over, and sighed as she heard the apologies.<br/><br/><strong>"Lea... I find it hard to be mad at you when I <em>know</em> you're not lying about why you did it..."</strong>she told her son, moving to put the jewelry into her own extradimensional pouch nearby.<strong>"But we weren't exactly <em>poor</em> before what happened to me happened; your job pays quite well, and we could take the money you inherited from my estate that I built up over more than a century and make quite a dent in it, and believe me I've thought about it... and you're right you're not a child... but you are without a doubt <em>my</em> child, and that you will always be.<br/><br/>"You'll understand one day if you ever have one of your own, but the short of it is that I have but one job now, and it's a job I've always had,"</strong>she moved and kissed away the tears upon his cheeks, then once more upon his forehead as she rubbed the top of his head.<strong>"To make you the happiest, safest little princess in all of the lands. So you're going to stop stealing, and you're going to keep the contents of our estate to us and our wants and needs, and mommy is going to make this debt disappear before you know it.<br/><br/>"For now, the best way you can help me, is to keep up the facade that I'm dead, and that Nei is too. That, and Nei could use a kind young man like you to talk to, maybe help her find something she can do to make an income as a dead woman. In fact..."</strong>she smirked a bit as she stood, before bending over and cupping Lea's crotch, rubbing his shaft just the way he liked it and getting him hard as steel.<strong>"No sexual activity with her until I get back later from talking to Mr. Dragon, or did you think you would go unpunished for telling me you've been breaking the law? But don't worry; mommy will make you feel <em>all better</em> when she gets back, let her see just how you like it in bed, if that's what you're hoping for..."</strong><br/><br/>She'd get dressed in short order, and go and check on Nei, see if she'd made headway on the recipes, or whatever else was on that chip. She would have to get her clothes later, after they slept; she'd been up all night, but she had to get this done first. And the gems... well... they were already stolen, already hot, so why not pawn them off towards her debt as intended?