Phoenix Maplewood Why did God create atheists?

John's response made Esma wonder, what was that made a wolf a mother or a father? Would she love and respect Ash Star, even if she had not given birth to her? Besides - how could the girl possibly know that this had happened? She had been told and this particular adult had always been around, but she did not remember being born. So - her logic of only believing things that she could actually see was not exactly working. "I think that my mom would still be my mom, even if I found out that I was not hers by birth," she told him. In the end, what made a mom... mom, was the combination of actions towards her. 

"Where are you heading to?" she asked.