Ankyra Sound you can’t save me

If that’s what it takes, Tiuttuk riposted without thinking, because she didn’t need to think when it came to the pups’ welfare.

But in the emotionally-charged moment after this declaration, the intention behind Sobeille’s words truly landed. Not only were they callous toward the children in question, they once more inferred—no, outright proclaimed—that Treepie meant nothing to Sobeille despite these last six weeks. Momentarily left speechless, her thoughts clamored wildly.

When she could find her voice, Pie sputtered, Do all four of us really mean so little to you…?

She just couldn’t grasp it, nor the enormity of the sudden turn this day had taken. Just moments ago, she’d been silently admiring this woman she thought she’d begun to love. She’d considered her a doting anaa. How could everything change so drastically and so swiftly?

Maybe it hadn’t. Maybe she’d just been an assuming, blind fool. But even as everything she thought she knew about Sobeille was called into question, Tiuttuk’s feelings toward the children—still blithely frolicking nearby, as if their mother wasn’t plotting murder—never wavered. She would not regret coming to know them, despite this cataclysmic plot twist.

Glancing at them, her heart filled with so much fear she couldn’t help but plead, Sobeille, do you even hear what you’re saying? When we met, you said you hadn’t made up your mind about these things. And now you want to throw helpless children to their deaths? You really think the sea will punish you? Has punished you? Because of what happened to your maman and the others?