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Chapter 7

We have spoken with Lyrentia, whom Brother says is our mother. We speak with her
in the Dranettie woods, under a full moon, and her without an army. Her death
would be easy.

We do not know to trust her, or believe her, what she says she wants most is to have
her family back, back before...

She thinks father sold us to the demon in the woods.

She says she was busy with research, making magic resistant soldiers to beat back the
chaos mages. Those that became BattleRagers now.

We remember things, mother in anger, Silence she yells, earning the paddle and red rumps.

Mother tells us of being taken down by the chaos mages, of taking many of them with her.
We ask her of our life before, before the dark woods.
She tells us of not being able to keep us clean, wanting to keep us in a bath tub.
She tells us of how father tended us most, how we were gleeful, but we whined the
most.

We remember though, we remember her holding our head under water, under bath water.
We remember that.

Structure is important to mother, she tells us that we would not listen, over and over, and
we were dirty, and needed to be paddled, needed to be bathed.

We asked when she decided her research was more important than us, and we saw a flash
of the darkness in her, the anger. She says it was not more important, but it was needed
to protect us.

We were not protected.

She does not like these questions, does not like us asking why she was not there. Not
protecting us. She thinks Muzabbak is our father. We do not know how she does not know?
We remember father giving us candy, bidding us not to tell mother.

Brordit, she named father.
He pled with her to spend more time with us, but she did not.
He tended us more, she says she did her fair share.
She says that father preferred that she dole out punishment, perhaps he didn't wish to be seen
as a bad parent.
She thinks the demon that lurks in the woods is an elder goddess demon that Muzzabak
brought. She does not think father made a bargain, either, that he would not bargain with
his children.

Mother thinks Nossos was a test subject of hers?


Muzabbek struggles with bees, does not remember clearly for the noise. The centaur
believes mother did it, that mother bargained with us.

Mother says she would consider living, and not Becoming, for us. But that she cannot allow her
work to be incomplete with respect to the village of battleragers.
Correcting its course, or directing it to what it was meant to be.

Mother has said she would do anything to help us, fight and destroy that which released
us from the dark, even sacrifice herself for us.

Mother tells us she is proud of us, for having survived and protected Admund.
We hear her, her voice, "I hope you're proud of yourselves, you filthy little beasts!"

Mother asks us not to keep secrets from her. Mothers always find out, she says.

We do not trust Mother.