Broken Antler Fen pleisosaur

Live more life?

Ibis could not comprehend a life beyond motherhood; she had always wanted to be a mother and moreover, wanted a family that would outlast her hurts. She was a mother selfishly. Her want, to be needed so deeply, to be a requirement for life, was central to all of that.

What more could there be? Her children needed her; at such time they didn't any longer she would have more, and more, and more. And some, the best ones, would stay with her.

Akavir did what he could. For whatever reason it was not enough for Ibis; but she was filled with fear too, that those she loved would inevitably leave her.

He hasn't said anything, Ibis answers sullenly. The man who was her husband - she hadn't let him in, had not let him close. If he had anything to say, Ibis was not open to it. I haven't given him a fair chance.

No, she has only been afraid. Fear and desire were her fuel and she was burning through it, to nothing.