Twin Moons

*Recluse* · Updated 04/30/23:

In truth, her father was one of her least favorite topics, but she made a point to keep it short. Viscera mused about wanting a role that kept him closer to home and Recluse hummed lightly as she considered their options, Recluse wasn't so proud to assume that there weren't any holes in the structure of Habari and if her son had spotted something she was missing she certainly wasn't about to deny him a rank he wanted.

Unfortunately, the conversation did turn towards Hannibal and the woman sighed, pulling out from under him so she could look up at her son as she spoke. "My father was a coward." She said plainly, the hatred she'd always felt for the bastard was tempered here though there was still resentment in her voice. "He was challenged when I was quite young and when he lost he ran away, abandoned his children. I don't blame him for not realizing it then, but our mother had also fled, took my brother, and me and my sister were left with no parent to care for us." She tried not to think too hard about how close to death she'd been, how if it wasn't for the lightning king she'd have died there in the den she'd once shared with her family, alone with not even her sister anymore.

"When he showed his face again, he'd started a new family, children he would abandon again. At that point, your aunt Deathbelle had started the Ashen Empire and he flitted in and out of the empire, though I've not seen him in many years. I suppose it's possible that not having to fulfill his duties as the Klein heir meant he did not feel he had any duty to the empire anymore, I cannot know anymore. I never forgave him for abandoning us and then starting a new family while his current one languished without him." There was a fervor to her tone that spoke of how raw that wound still was.

"Though I suppose I can thank him for one thing. He taught me exactly what type of parent I never wanted to be. Because of him, I knew I never wanted any of my children to go through what I did." She leaned back into her son, none of her children would ever suffer as she had, doubt their own worth as she had. They would always know that she loved them and that they were wonderful in her eyes, each of them irreplacable.

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