"So what?" Lith asked, sighing in relief.
"So, I know I can't teach them how to handle their powers, but you can." Rena replied. "I know that at some point in Leria's life, if she Awakens and then turns into a new kind of Divine Beast, she will feel lost and confused.
"I know that I'm asking a lot of you, but please, be their parent for the things I can't help them with. Be their parent when I won't be here anymore. Please, promise me that you'll protect them and take care of them like you did for me."
"Why me? Why not Tista?" Lith felt a lump in his throat, not for the commitment that the promise implied but at the idea of living in a world without his big sister.
"Because Tista still looks up to you to find her path in life. I know that she can keep my children safe but I don't think she can teach them anything about being a hybrid, let alone a Divine Beast.
"She may be older than you, but in my eyes, she's still a little girl. You instead, are a man and a father."
"Dya!" Elysia puffed her chest out with pride.
In her mind, it was a shared achievement since they had graduated from the father/daughter academy on the same day.
"Dya indeed." Rena offered her index finger to the baby and Elysia grabbed it. "What do you say, little brother?"
"You have my word." Lith nodded.
"Thank you. You have no idea what this means to me." Rena hugged him again.
"Don't thank me. Thank Elysia." He returned the embrace, holding his sister tight.
"Because she made you a better man?" Rena asked.
"Be?" Elysia echoed.
"No, because by then she'll be old enough to take care of her cousins in place of her old man." Lith coughed while hunching his back, pretending to have suddenly aged decades. "I'm too old for this stuff."
"Dya!" Elysia shapeshifted into a small Voidfeather Dragon to have a neck long enough to reach Lith's shoulder and pin-like teeth to bite him.
"Thank you, Elysia, then." Rena caressed the small scaly head and then ran her hand along the neck. "Don't be angry at your dad. He is right. As the older sister, you'll also have to take care of your younger siblings, just like I did."
"What siblings?" Lith froze in horror.
"Wa?" Elysia asked with a mouth full of Voidwalker armor.
"Feel free to use your brothers and sisters as practice, Elysia, so that when you take care of my children, they'll have the best mentor on Mogar." Rena chuckled, ignoring them both. "As for you little brother, our family has twins often.
"This time you were lucky, but the next…"
"Please, stop!" He looked at Elysia, imagining all the trouble he was going through doubled if not tripled like it had happened to Rena.
"Fine. Now bring me to the moon. I bet that I'm going to be the first woman ever to take a bath in a lake under Mogarlight."
He had written those runes millennia ago and even though he couldn't remember them all, he could reverse-engineer them. freeweɓnovel.cøm
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