Neverwinter Forest Paradise on the right, hell on the left

As expected, he pushed back against her suggestion, but she was stubborn too, so she shrugged and added: Those skills can still be taught while you're with them; it's better than never seeing them, don't you think? In a perfect world, everyone would all live together in one place and be happy and get along, but she was pretty sure they both knew how imperfect the world could be. The universe didn't care what he wanted; it just dealt them their hands based on their choices or sometimes for no reason at all, and they had to figure out how to live with it. That was what she had come to understand anyway. Eventually the both of them would just have to figure out a way to make it work if they wanted Mal to be in the kids' lives.

When he stopped and looked at her, spouting his questions, she paused and stared at him. She had apparently misunderstood him before. She winced a little and shrugged again. I don't know, Mal, she answered hesitantly. Sometimes people are shitty and do shitty things; I don't think we always get to know the reasons why. She wished she had answers for him, if only to soothe his obvious upset, but she didn't know why the Yuèlóng leader had made the decisions she made. Simmik didn't even know her, so there was no way she could even try to get inside her head, nor did she really want to; as far as she was concerned, she was someone who had hurt Mal, and so she was already starting off on her shit list.