Dragoncrest Cliffs Brilliance

Erzulie went on to list all of the people that Sappique had lost and unlike that time with Coon Merlin really made an attempt to listen and remember. Even if descriptions alone made it hard to do it. He needed an image. Even if not knowing any of the three personally made it hard to fully understand the extent of loss that the leader did. He watched her cry and did not know, what to do, other than staying put and watching her with a sympathetic gaze. It occurred to him that maybe he could offer a hug or let her lean against him, or kiss the tears away from her cheeks, but he did not act on any of those options. He was almost two years old, but his level of people skills was low. 

Then she posed a question to him, for a moment there Merlin wondered, if it was one of those that you did not have to answer, but he figured that instead of feeling torn about, what he should be doing to make Erzulie feel better or at least less sad, keeping the conversation going was a way to snake out and away from the clutches of awkwardness. "I... have always wanted to belong," he replied. Somehow this sentence summarized all his life - both the part he remembered and the part he had no memory off.