just say there is nothing holding you back

Mortis gave a helpless shrug at that. He would always want to give those he loved the best of the world. It hurt to watch them stumbling through it. He thought of Ophelia, who had looked the most lost at the reunion with their mother. She had once been a girl with a big grin playing in the snow with Hika and Mort.

The winged boy sighed, leaning against his friend once more. The words Hika gave didn’t entirely surprise him, but still, he wanted to know. “You have no ambitions for yourself?” he asked softly. His parents had had ambitions for him, Mortis knew that. He had broken free of that, but was there really nothing more he wanted to work towards? Mortis wanted… he wanted to find a way to repair the fissures in his family, and bring everyone back to happiness. Somehow.

"Speech"