Thread:ThisIsXenon/@comment-35042251-20190923161415/@comment-35042251-20191020151602

Silverskies stiffened, halting in her tracks. She stared at Clay, her face unreadable. Around them, the air dropped to a chilled temperature and the soft rustle of the wind abruptly died down, leaving them surrounded by an eerie silence.

Skylight froze, her eyes widening as she whipped around to see the tense scene behind her. ''Oh. My. Gods. We’re gonna die. That’s just it. Mom is gonna loose it and she’s gonna blast Clay into a pile of ashes and then kill me too and then who knows what!!'' Muscles tense, she hurried over and grabbed her stock-still mother’s hand.

“Mom, listen. You’ve messed up, yeah, and there’s nothing that’s going to make up for all those years you left us alone and on our own, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try to be a real mom now. You can try to build solid relationships with your kids and not smite is if we make you angry.” Skylight glanced over urgently at Clay, beseeching him for help. “Just lis-“

But Silverskies held up a hand for silence and said in a cool, calm voice, “No, Skylight. I want to hear from both of you, from all of my children, their angry and bitterness at me. I want to know how I’ve failed them as a mother and the pain that I, whether directly or indirectly, caused them. So don’t hold anything back.” She stood there, staring them both in the eye. “Let go of any anger, any bitterness, any rage. Scream at me, yell at me, curse at me. Anything you want.”