Redsand Canyon Whatever makes you happy

He hadn't meant to bring up something painful for her. He almost wished he had said nothing about her mother, but the question allowed him to know her more. She had learned everything from her mother. His heart squeezed painfully when she told him of her death and how she blamed herself for not being able to save her. 

Aquene, he murmured, her pain was too much for him to bear. Kallik leaned over and nuzzled her cheek. She had known her mother before she died. They had a relationship and Aquene had memories. That had to make her death harder. Kallik had never known his own mother. She had died when he was a baby still and now he couldn't even remember what she looked like. Her death is not your fault, he told her. He knew well how that kind of guilt could eat you up inside.