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"That was not right of him to do it," Wraen nodded in agreement, recalling the lengthy conversation she had had with the boy afterwards. "He was disrespectful and I understand, how it hurt you," still did, even though Elfie was long gone. Either dead or alive he had already paid the price for his petty childish crimes tenfold. She would rather have that little jerk here now than never finding out about his fate. 

"And yet... It may be hard to understand it now, but we should stand above those people that hurt us," she said. "And even pity them that they do so - knowingly or unknowingly - either they want to feel better about themselves or they are looking for something that they do not know yet that they are missing," Wraen paused here to let this sink in. She did not believe that people were inherently all bad, but rather that the best and the worst came out, when the were surrounded by other people. 

"I don't defend Elfie for what he did, but... uh... I don't think that it was in any way linked to hating you or the memory of your dad, but more about the complexity of his own situation that he did not see any way out of," she tried to put the idea in the best words, but it did not come easy. "His mom died and his world collapsed. You have seen, what Eljay is like - it has been a year now and there are marginal improvements. In a way he lost both parents, when he needed them the most.

Children are selfish and they do not usually overanalyze things much. But I think that a simple - why do you do that? - would have set him back and made him think a little. Or just reaching out a helping paw. You cannot save people from themselves, but you can at least give them an opportunity. Though... on the other hand it is fine also, if you do not want to see them again, because they have hurt you too deeply," she felt that she had lost track of, what she had wanted to say and had not conveyed even half of, what she had had on her mind. 

"I knew Kiwi. She was Wildfire's daughter from an earlier mateship," Wraen told him.