Northstar Vale A new reason to smile.

Her stomach ached, she felt nauseous and wanting to purge the non-existent content within her belly onto the floor, but it didn't come. Right now she envied Ibis' strength, her own sense of justice, and certainty in her beliefs. It took a moment but she was eventually able to relax the tense muscles that seized every fiber of her being. Deflated and defeated as she lay on the ground, but at least she was no longer coiled and wound up. Thank you.

But it didn't stop there. More truth from Ibis came forth, digging through her ears and made its home within her thoughts. All the thoughts, everything that overshadowed her days - she was right. Oh man was she right. How could she continue to dispute it? Dispute she does, she was in that spider's web he had weaved and ensnared her in. 

He won't. There was no certainty in her own tone, barely believing it herself as she spoke. I've accepted our arrangement, I hope we can be a true family soon. He said he would raise them all as his own... I have faith. At this point, she could only hope that Takeshi would uphold that, would make both their lives easier by following through and doing just as she hoped he would. 

She could only lie and protect him for so long... even she knew that.