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Haku Soul silently tilted his head, studying her like a vengeful god deciding a punishment for his wayward sovereigns. She really couldn't control the shaking her body did when his dark eyes roamed it, the feeling that everything she had done to keep herself together was being forced effortlessly to the surface for him to pick apart. Coli gritted her chattering teeth and forced her wobbly legs to stand, meeting him eye to eye. She knew she was not intimidating whatsoever, nor did she hope to be. It was just better than groveling at his feet - it reminded her too much of how he had left her the first time. She would have forgiven him, had he stayed to take care of her. If he had said he was sorry, he didn't mean it. She had still trusted him, even then, knowing it wasn't a side of his mind he could stop. Was that so wrong? But to be left alone in the darkness, to cry herself to sleep because she couldn't stand up... how miserable. She blamed him for that, and as the winter chill bit through her thin fur, she knew she'd dreamed of leaving him the same way.
...'be of use', did he say? Be of what use? Was he actually planning to corrupt his own children? Coli felt her innards squirm, threatening to heave again, although she had nothing left to regurgitate. She barely ate as it was. At least in the case of her assault, it had been an accident, right? A crime of passion, so to speak. A mistake that had ruined her life as she knew it. "...I... I won't let you hurt those boys," she gasped, trying not to cower from the blows she expected to rain down on her. Haku brought out the worst in her. "They... they have the right to be normal. They have a chance-!" Her voice was pleading, as though she was the mother trying to protect them. Did Firefly give a rat's ass about them? She had no idea, only that the golden-fire Sadira was too frightening to approach. Alexey had the right idea, trying to spend as much time with them as she could. And Coli longed to accompany her on her Caregiver duties, but fear held her back as always. Could any of Haku's children really be normal? She desperately wanted to believe so.
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