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She was not met with animosity, which was a good sign, though the wild-eyed look of Marina as she lifted her gaze to meet Anais's spoke of trouble. Uncertain, and only as a precaution, Anais drew a small step back, allowing the woman room as she shakily began to rise to her paws. Was she well? Sick? She thought briefly of possibly fetching Lior to help - given that this woman was the mother of their brother's children, she figured her sister would take little convincing - but waited and continued to watch in an attempt to gauge the colorful wolf's health before she went raising any alarm bells. The last thing Anais wanted to do was create further discomfort for her.
But it was not a physical illness that plagued the woman. She answered the golden brown hunter's question with an answer that Anais had not been expecting, divulging a little to her about what sort of past she must have come from. With her ears tilting back, Anais listened and wondered what sort of history must have created such nightmares that they even managed to steal upon someone during the daylight hours. It had to be nothing good, nothing like normal nightmares, but her life, she knew, had been sheltered and so she doubted she could even begin to fathom what truly haunted her.
It pained her to see Marina so upset, so distraught, just as much as it pained her to see anyone that way. But being the aunt to her children, Anais felt a certain responsibility, a need, to step in and try to help this woman in distress, if it was possible for her to do so. "Marina, whatever happened back then," she said softly, calmly, trying to reassure her, "it's in the past. Things are better now. You and Nako created some beautiful children, yes? And you're happy with them, aren't you?" Hoping to distract her, Anais focused on the positives of the present, the happy things that she could see as sources of light in the darkness. She had no idea what Marina felt, thought, or experienced, but she tried, in her own way, to be helpful, entirely uncertain if her words would have any effect at all.
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