Northstar Vale Conversations With Dead People

If she had to be honest, his words of encouragement didn't help in the slightest. It felt like pandering, an empty attempt to make it all seem like it amounted to something in the end - but she knew, or at least she believed she knew, it didn't.  Try as she might to keep people safe, her loved ones safe, it was all failure every turn she took. For the time being, she remained silent, brewing over his words and letting him speak without interruptions.

It wasn't until the end when he declared they would save the vale, which was the best of the sentences he had uttered, did she take the stage for herself again. I know his wrath better than anyone, I don't need to be shown what I already know. She was there from the beginning, after all, she had not only witnessed the majority of it - should others be hidden from her as well, but she was also the victim in many of the cases. To be told she needed to see was insulting.

Before she was completely done, her eyes focused on the man once more, burning ice directed only to him now. And never speak of my daughters in such a situation so casually again. Though the knowledge that Hiromi had gone through it all as well was painful enough, just the thought that her daughters could ever be in a similar situation was beyond her. Beyond words. Without a true father, the role of the protector fell onto their her and she would gladly do so by any means necessary until her role as a mother came to an end.