398 - Should the Emerald be Deemed Sufficient

I walked mother back up to her room in the Mahid quarters, suppressing my reaction.  I was cold.  Not in shock.  Just cold relief. Rather than just leave her there alone, now that she was speaking to me, I went in to sit.She was pale and I wondered what was going through her mind.  He had brutalized her as much or more than he had brutalized me… and my father had done as bad or worse before