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Within Cloudia's graveyard, where the bodies of the deceased were placed for eternal rest, or where graves were erected for those whom bodies could not be recovered, rcedes and Brisingra stood in front of three graves with the nas "Elbedo", "Cecilia", and "Hers".
rcedes was calmly and lancholically looking at the graves, there were no bodies here at all, their bodies were destroyed alongside the ruins where they had intended to kill everyone. However, due to her insistence, graves were erected to them, even if they were seen as traitors.
"…" Brisingra looked at her mother in silence.
She felt slightly frustrated that she had co here to see the graves of the people that tried to kill her mom, especially after revealing their true faces, looking like insane and wicked people.
They betrayed the trust of everyone in the party and attempted to murder them all. it was also revealed that most of the problems they faced originally were all designed by them too.
"If it weren't for them, mom wouldn't have suffered so much…" Brisingra couldn't help but think. "Maybe the reason why she was like that according to dad, was because of all the emotional damage she took from her friend's betrayal, and probably Cloudia being destroyed…"
Brisingra, however, started to wonder how it was possible for her mom to appear so many years later after Cloudia was destroyed. Ancient Elves are said to be able to control the Elent of Ti, so it might've been possible that her mother ended traveling to the future in an accident, or perhaps to escape the threat of the past.
However, the mother in front of her was an echo of the past, a mory of ti itself that was her mother in the past. So would say she was simply fake, but Brisingra wanted to believe this was also her mother, a piece of her mories and a fragnt of her past, but it was her mother at the end.
"You probably must hate for coming here and grieving their deaths after everything that happened, isn't it?" rcedes sighed, smiling back at Brisingra.
"Eh? No, I would never hate you for anything, mom!" Brisingra cried. "I-I… I am just a bit frustrated you're so forgiving…"
"I understand how you feel… I might've felt the sa way in your shoes too," rcedes nodded. "However, to , Elbedo, Hers, and Cecilia are more than just traitors that tried to kill … I lived for hundreds of years with them. I saw Cecilia grow up, since she was a child. She was my best friend, and soone… Soone I loved dearly."
"Mom…" Brisingra noticed her mother's tears falling from her eyes.
"So… Even if they betrayed , even if they tried to kill , I-I want to rember them for what they were to before all of that…" rcedes kept sobbing. "They were my friends, my dear friends… People I loved like my family… I loved their banter, I loved researching with them, and… and I loved sharing als with them. All these mories of happiness, I don't want to pretend they never existed."
"Sorry…" Brisingra sighed. "I didn't consider that…"
"You don't need to apologize for anything dear, I understand your frustration. You only t these people for a couple of days at most…" rcedes sighed.
"I wish I could have been smarter, I wish I could have tried to find what was wrong with them, I rember that there were clues, they sotis acted strange, gathering without , or going out without … But I always thought that it was simply to do sothing normal, or to not bother while I was busy… I wish I could have done sothing to stop them, to make them change their ways, to convince them…"
"But when we faced them, they didn't seem to want to change…" Brisingra sighed.
"Exactly," rcedes nodded. "It was too late… I don't know what exactly happened to them in the Tiline where you co from, but if I was alive, then that probably ans that they spared my life in the original tiline… Maybe, I want to believe, that perhaps… That perhaps thanks to these bonds we forged, they spared my life…"
"Maybe…" Brisingra said.
"Cecilia…" rcedes kept sobbing, as Brisingra patted her shoulders.
"Was she very important to you?" Brisingra wondered. "I-I thought mom only liked dad but… I didn't know you had soone you loved before."
"I-I… I did love her… Not as just a friend," rcedes tried cleaning the tears from her eyes, but she would only keep crying. "I was dumb… I never tried to confess my feelings to her, I thought she didn't like back, that it might've been weird for two won to be in love.
So I kept these feelings inside, and I just was happy with her as my friend… Maybe if I would have told her about my feelings before, she would have changed. Maybe… this wouldn't have happened."
"I'm sorry mom, I'm so sorry…" Brisingra started crying at the side of rcedes, hugging her and trying to comfort her.
rcedes accepted the hug from her daughter of the future, as she smiled a bit, and stopped crying.
"It's fine… I'm happy enough knowing that in the future, I was happy, and that… I t your father and had such a cute girl as my daughter," rcedes said. "I wonder though, did I never give you a na?"
"I… Yes, you did," Brisingra nodded. "Dad called Brisingra, and well, you… Hah, you called Cecilia."
rcedes' eyes widened, as she smiled tenderly.
"I guess… Yeah, I would have done that," rcedes caressed her daughter's hair. "Let's go back ho now, dear. Shall we make sothing for lunch?"
"Sure!" Brisingra nodded. "Let cook today mom, you should just sit down and relax!"
"Heheh, such an attentive daughter… Your father raised you well," rcedes giggled. Enjoy more content from m-v l'e|-
Mother and daughter walked back ho, as they found a few friends waiting for them at the entrance.
"Oh! Lady Planta!" Brisingra smiled.
"Hi! I know it has only been just a day, but I wanted to check on you," Planta smiled.
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