Blacktail Deer Plateau I deserved that one.

Frustration and hurt.  It was a familiar sensation since becoming a mother and one that became harder and harder for the normally outward pirate to not project on her son.  As she watched him close over once more, she did growl.

If you won't speak, fine.  But I'll tell you what I learned, and maybe one day when you trust me you'll heed it. Her ire wasn't with him, but with herself.... because perhaps, if she'd been there when he'd left, he'd trust her with this now.  She'd failed him and now was reaping the consequences.

The more space you give them in your mind, the longer they win.  Learn what you must and let the rest go.  The fur on her back rose as she thought of the lessons she'd been imparted, and in some part she was glad not to need to bring her children into that.  After all, she'd not needed to voice it to move on.  In time, he would.... or he'd let them turn him as they'd been turned.

After what she'd seen, she feared the latter, a fear she and Erzulie seemed to share.