Chapter 36: Chapter Thirty-Four – Motherly Advice

“She just wants to feel important,” Mommy Laura whispered after Rysa left to return home. “I’m sure I could break her curse on Eskame whenever I wanted. Just look after her for a few months and when Rysa gets preoccupied keeping reality from falling apart I’ll pop over and free her mind.”

“I still feel bad I advocated for this. I feel like I’ve done something terrible.”

“She demanded that you treat her like your little sister as long as she’s in that body, didn’t she?”  Mommy Laura chuckled. “Is it not normal for older siblings to mislead and misinform younger siblings. Teasing the siblings younger than you, and getting teased by those older than you seems to be pretty common. In that sense, by advocating for her current predicament you were doing exactly as she asked.”

“I’m sure she trusted me though… and I let her down.”

“She’s not going to lose these memories when we free her later,” Mommy Laura said scritching Eskame behind the ears. “She’ll remember you coming to her defense, I don’t believe she’ll hold it against you. Besides she’s spent centuries making enemies of all manner of folk, she had to know this was a possibility if she let her guard down.”

“Big Sis,” Eskame trembled, her face still buried in my chest. “Is the scary lady gone?”

“Yeah she’s gone. It’s just us and Mommy Laura now.”

“Mommy,” Eskame turned to gaze at Mommy Laura with one eye. “Are you Eskame’s mommy?”

Mommy Laura laughed before reaching out her hands in a silent gesture for me to hand Eskame over to her. “Of course sweetie~!”

As soon as Eskame moved from my lap to her’s, I got a message from Mommy Laura.

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