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VAI The huntress ”She sounds like a smart woman,” Vai said, knowing all too well how difficult it was to operate in a world that you could only oversee from the sidelines. To live, to watch her son grow up and have to keep him at arm’s length... Vai frowned out at the waves. Could she imagine doing such a thing with Ashetta? With Felix? Never. Perhaps that would have meant a very quick demise by Korofi standards. Or perhaps she would have learned to steel herself; watching from afar was better than nothing at all, wasn’t it? Letting out a deep sigh, she glanced back across to Sunjata, soaking wet and full of whiskey. ”Sometimes we have to cling on to the times we did have. A year is longer than you thought you might have, right?” Pushing her sopping wet curls out of her face, Vai took up the bottle again for another sip. ”I imagine she was very proud of you, for doing what you did.”