Lost Creek Hollow Lynx

Always have been and always will be. Forever and always.

Beautiful words, but Esma's furrowed brow told that she was not quite content with the answer. This statement belonged to the long "Cause I said so" list. Something you used, when you did not know the answer and wanted to put the discussion to a halt. Could it be that even her mom did not know everything? Or was it not allowed to ask some things? She wanted to ask, but decided against it. She knew her place. A nobody. For now. But there would come a day, when she would be knowledgable and important enough to challenge Ash Paw with this question. 

She also wanted to ask, whether mom was confident that, what she believed was the right truth. Now it sounded as if Atka and Sos were dependant on, who believed them. If people believed something different, then the duo did not exist to them. "How can something exist and not exist at the same time?" she mused, puzzled by this. "If... other people do not know Atka and Sos, therefore they are not real to them. But they believe something else that is not real to us... What is the truth in the end?" she asked.