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Certainly not in Mistral, of all places.

Ah, the question of how the hell such a disorganized rabble of bandits could possibly survive. She sighs and rolls her shoulders uncomfortably. "A lot of them don't survive. But the rules of the Branwen Tribe were always pretty straightforward there: grown people who aren't strong enough to protect themselves against the Grimm are dead weight," she says, struggling to believe that she ever bought into this bullshit. The way she sags makes it clear that it weighs her down like chains these days. "And when the weak die, that's just one less mouth to feed. A pointless and unnecessarily cruel policy."

The older woman's words brought a smile to her face and she was trying hard to not let tears if joy fall from her eyes, as she nodded her head as a way to say she understod.

"Attagirl, that's better! Now, why don't you run and clean up while I get some dinner started?" she suggests, deciding that there are few problems that can't be mitigated by throwing some food at them. "We'll have your favorite tonight, to celebrate the occasion."

Aurora is thankfully that Raven was able to bring up the subject about the connection the two of them now had.

"I-I believe you.... Im just sorry for causing you more trouble..."

The amount of issues that she had brought along with her wasnt lost on the young girl, and she would forever be grateful that the older woman was willing to put up with it.

Now that this whole situation was basically dealt with, it was time to address the elephant in the room: The whole Kinderd Link situation.

"Hey, no. You didn't cause me any problems. The people who did this caused the problems, and you were the victim," she says, putting a wrench in that train of thought before it can dig in.

Aurora simply nodded her head in response. While she knew what Raven said was true, a small part of her brain still felt like there was a chance she could have changed her biogical mother's mind.

Raven wraps her arms around Aurora protectively, and the irony of the moment isn't lost on her. Her actual children that she helped create aren't this close with her, and likely never will be. Yet here is the daughter of her greatest enemy, and somehow these two have a working mother-daughter relationship.

It's almost cruel, but it's also more than she deserves. It reaffirms her own humanity, and that scares the hell out of her.

".....T-Try not to be too harsh on them... o-okay? It's not like i-i dont get why they would react that way towards me..."

Even if she was as innocent as she could be, she still shared blood with the person who was threating all of Remnant, so she had tried to prepare herself for dealing with that.

"Don't worry. I know that if I try to handle this directly, somebody's going to die. So I'm going to hand this off to somebody impartial who can take care of it," she says, feeling as if every word has to be forced out of her mouth.

Hearing that the other had appearntly felt that something had been wrong with her due to her semblance was very much a shock to Aurora as it would have been to Raven at first.

But she should properly tell her what happend first and then they would likely talk about the link thing later.

Sonuvabitch. Okay, that immediately causes Raven's eyes to flare, though to her credit she doesn't start burning the city down. "Well, your aura should handle the bruises soon enough," she says, using sheer willpower to keep herself composed.

The sudden voice caused her to jump before turning to the source of it and seeing that the older woman had returned.

"O-Oh welcome back mom, h-h-how did your field trip go?"

"Nothing out of the ordinary, really. I was on the way back home when I felt somebody in trouble over my Kindred Links, and...here you are," she says, looking the girl over for injuries. "So what happened?"