The pit | I fell in the pit

He said it was her and Vai couldn't deny him, but if they were talking then maybe they could wend their way to some sort of sensible explanation. If there was one. The lion certainly wasn't sensible, and as Remi's eyes burned golden and he reminded her of the monster lurking underneath, she felt that staying up there for now was probably for the best. At least he took her coat, though. It was wet more than it was cold, but that was for Vai who hadn't been out in the elements for days. "She wanted you to die...?" She scowled at that, shaking her head. "No, Remi. She would never have asked that of you - she'd want you to live." The conviction in her voice was entirely personal; as a mother who had searched for her child for so long it had all but seemed impossible that it would happen, all Vai had wanted was for Ashetta to have her best life possible. "I think maybe you knew that too - that's why the lion came..." Taking a deep breath and letting it out again, she tucked her hair back behind her ear. "Remember when we were in the infirmary and you told me about that shrine...? About religion, and what appeared, and how it made you feel...?" Hopefully he'd know what she was getting at. "Maybe something was doing that again?" Or maybe Remi was crazy. And either way it didn't matter - whether real or not he had killed his mother in his eyes, and that wasn't a burden she could simply take from him. "What are you going to do now?" vervain where the wild things are