Asteria’s mother isn’t evil, and she isn’t stupid. Mother is just lacking something for which Asteria has not yet found the right word, the perfect descriptive. She loves her mom, she really does, just as anyone would love a lost kitten, even though a lot of the time Asteria has to be the adult if there’s going to be one in this relationship.
Asteria is the more adult of the mother/daughter duo fleeing Tanner
