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Given his words, this was indeed Wyndel’s son and she felt oddly compelled to be nice to him–some small part of the long-dead girl she used to be emerging in response to the boy. He looked so young and…perhaps not fragile, but she suspected that playing with him as she’d first wanted to was probably not a good idea. She had very little experience with young children, and all said, she probably didn’t like them all that much.

“Don’t be scared of me, ad’ika.” Eris murmured softly as she crouched down to look the boy in the eye. “I won’t do anything to you, I promise. And I’m looking for Xylek as well, so why don’t we go looking for him together?”

Kader took another step back, he wasn’t scared of her, but rather he was uncertain of her motives. Truth be told, he shouldn’t have even been out in the open, but here he was pressing his luck.

“He’s been gone too long.” He said softly, “He’s gonna be mad if I am with someone.”

“Don’t be scared of me, ad’ika.” Eris repeated. “I doubt he’ll get mad when I show up.” she paused before adding, “Or maybe he will. But I promise not to let him do anything to you.”

It was such a strange feeling–the long-dead girl in her just wanted to love and protect this small boy. She decided she wasn’t going to push the feeling down and see where it took her. Perhaps she could find a use for it, just as she had most of the other feelings and emotions that she felt.

“He will be mad.” He said again as he took yet another step back, “He’s always mad… if.. if I am found out.”

Kader lowered his head for a moment, “He’s going to shock me.”