She was so happy to see Shaye again, to see that she was remembered and loved by this little life she treasured. She caught Shaye looking to Rhythm and smiled warmly at her little daughter “This is your Auntie Rhythm, do you remember her?” she asked gently, through the little ones attention was flitting back and forth and she was already calling Shai to them. She grew shy as the brute drew near, wondering what he thought of her return, of the strange woman she brought with her and wondered how she would tell him she had come to claim Shaye once more. She would be startled when words fell from his lips, words in her language.
Hearing him speak at last, in words she understood she would be caught off guard. Of course, she should have expected that Shai and Shaye would learn off each other, but yet.. this sudden ability to cross the language gap between them made him more real, from the fantasy figure of love she had been caught with that night that Shaye had been created. He could speak to her now, communicate, ask questions dear god she thought, what must he think of me? She half expected him to ask her why she had seduced him, why she had wanted him so badly that night. Of course, since Shaye wouldn't know words like Seduce he couldn't realistically ask it of her... ”h-hello” she replied, her voice quite, uncertain as she realized she had fallen for this boy for his body, for his intelligent loving eyes, but.. would she love him for who he was as well? dear gods she thought again, a sudden pain aching in her chest, because it had always been the language barrier that had protected her from falling wholly and completely in love with him and she couldn't bare the thought of choosing between him which would also be giving Shaye a complete family, or Bass, Rhythm, and Abaven.
