She said it very simply and briefly, Ziio looked a little... sad. If there was a word for it. But how could she expect anything else? Of course there was tension. She eyed him with a mother's gaze for a few moments longer before she finally looked away.
"Of course you do," she said, as if reassuring herself more than him. "We're much more alike than I would have thought."
I, too, have things I want to ask for. Things to ask of you. Things to ask of Haytham. And yet I cannot ask for any of them. For all of the same reasons you say.
"I can't be the mother you missed as a child and I can't treat you as the child I left in Kanatahséton. Sitting here with you now..." She thought for a moment before she pressed on, "I don't know how to be the mother you need me to be, or if you need me at all."
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She said it very simply and briefly, Ziio looked a little... sad. If there was a word for it. But how could she expect anything else? Of course there was tension. She eyed him with a mother's gaze for a few moments longer before she finally looked away.
"Of course you do," she said, as if reassuring herself more than him. "We're much more alike than I would have thought."
I, too, have things I want to ask for. Things to ask of you. Things to ask of Haytham. And yet I cannot ask for any of them. For all of the same reasons you say.
"I can't be the mother you missed as a child and I can't treat you as the child I left in Kanatahséton. Sitting here with you now..." She thought for a moment before she pressed on, "I don't know how to be the mother you need me to be, or if you need me at all."