Twisted Slough do you remember me? i killed your family

It was the fear in his eyes and the pain on his expression that kept her from backing away and turning around to walk away. It was the way that for once he seemed young and vulnerable as a boy should be. She held his gaze and while her tone was gentle still, her words were just as she usually was, firm and ungiving and rough around the edges "Perhaps I am wrong....I can't know what happened" but in her mind she replayed the memories, the smells of only Orochi and Issun, the angry shouting mixed with the ones of terror and then the horrible sickly scent mixed in. Nobody else had been there and it had sounded like Orochi was under attack....

"I do have a theory that Issun was very sick, that it went to his mind and he took it out on you. It could have been me. Or Higoro" Or your mother if she had been here.... though she left that unsaid. Her gaze was sympathetic as she looked at him, the pain and the regret swimming in her own gaze. "I am so sorry it happened to you, Little Dragon"  the words were spoken in a hushed tone, bleeding the yearning to take his burden without offering any gesture of comfort physically.