Herbalists' Cache blue

She grappled with some kind of response.  She could not tell him the magnitude of grief she felt for her babies.  The wound was healing, but Reigi would likely never be completely over the betrayal of finding out that not only did Xan hate her for leaving, he had pawned off their children — her children — on the woman who caused her to run in the first place.

She knew that it was her own fault that she wasn't involved in their lives, but she did not understand how nobody else could see that it was theirs, too.  Her only solace had been Yakone and Komodo, and she had spurned the latter.

Am, am very sorry.  The line of her mouth tightened as she sighed, knowing that the answer was not sufficient.  Am hurting, Modo.