Sunbeam Lair As he[a righteous man] breaks, so shall it [hell] break

He seemed to calm after a few agonizing minutes in which she was afraid what would happen next. What had happened to him while he was gone? She was very concerned for her brother, and she was about to insist he follow her back to Diaspora where she could make sure he had a safe place to recover from whatever was going on, but then she saw his eyes drift to her roundness. She was quiet for a few seconds, thinking of the right thing to say. You're going to have more nieces and nephews soon, she finally said, her voice a little hesitant. She wasn't sure if the news would upset him more or help take his mind off things. This certainly hadn't been how she wanted him to find out she was going to be a mother. She honestly hadn't even known if he would ever meet them, so she supposed she was at least glad that now he would hopefully be able to know them, especially since Shivali's children were god knows where. Being a mother was all she had wanted, but the joy was tainted now with disappearance of her family looming over her head. She barely allowed herself to hope that Sia would be around to see her children grow; he definitely wasn't himself, and she was afraid he would leave again. It made her want to protect herself from the pain, but she could never turn Sia away, not even if he had come back whole to the full edge of her fury and resentment.