[SEASONAL EVENT] belladonna

ASHE some people survive chaos, and that is how they grow,    As Vai enfolded Ashe into her arms, the girl breathed out her tension and returned the embrace. She was warm and unfaltering, and there would always be something about being held by her mother that couldn't be replicated with anyone but her.    She breathed in deeply and pressed her head against her mother, and she remained there. "You would have been there if you could," she replied. "I know you would have." Her eyes prickled, but she smiled, and she even huffed a thick sort of laugh. "Thank you." It would take time, she knew. For her mother, for Kalt. She was almost wholly certain he was more shut down to vulnerability than she had been with anyone but her - he wore his arrogance like armor. Of course.. there was still more arrogance beneath the armor.    Ashe was smirking to herself at the thought, but she didn't pull away from Vai just yet. "Theea too, you'll love her. She's three and too smart for her own good." The toddler was growing too fast too quickly. She tried not to think about it too often - how much she missed of Theea's early years. Her first words, her first steps, her first foods, learning all the little things that new little people had to learn. She dread to even imagine what it would have been like if it had been fifteen years she had missed. Ashe had survived horrors no one should have to think of, but just then it was the strength of her mother that awed her. Not that Ashe was any kind of mother, as if she had any right to such a title. Some things were harder to work through.    Ashe lifted her head enough to look at her mother, quirking a brow and echoing the wry smile. "Could you help us plant a garden at the house? I think she'd like it." and some people thrive in chaos because that is all they know.