Sunbeam Lair i promised i wouldn’t do it again

Thade tilted his head, and sat down as if the weight of this question was too much for him to take standing.

"I don' know," he replied earnestly -- almost flatly -- because even though Mother had tried to brainwash this child into thinking he belonged to her, she had only succeeded in teaching him all the differences between her and his actual mother. So, despite calling the she-wolf "Mother," he never once put her in the same category as Wylla, and he wouldn't respond to a question regarding "his mother" with an answer about Mother. "Mother said I'm not allowed t'see my mama ever again," he added with a shrug. He'd stopped being as sad about it these days. It was just a fact of life to him now, more than anything.