Aqualina... she was indeed drowning in confusion, lost within the haze of her memories... her past, her present... everything was so tangled and chaotic that even though Aether had managed to calm her down before, the storm inside her hadn't truly settled.
She had decided to live as Sandra's daughter—but still, her mind, in its fractured state, kept slipping into a place where she felt more like the mother... the one who was supposed to protect.
But the moment she realized that Sandra had already known about her... that painful truth shattered her all over again. The thin line between past and present snapped, leaving her heart trembling, her mind in shambles.
But now... now, everything had cleared up. The fog, the confusion, the fear, the guilt, the sense of loss and desperate longing... it all slowly lifted—like dawn breaking through after a stormy night.
All of it faded after just one thing.
A single talk. That's all it needed.
