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Elfì
Lëy'la knew, she was his mother, as Rotxo had mentioned her before.
"What are you doing here? You should not be here" his grandmother sat up.
"And why not?" Elfì replied.
"You lost all rights the day you left him and ran away. Now leave!" Rotxo's grandmother replies.
"I'm here because I wish to see him and make up for the mistake I have made. He is my son and I have every right to be here" Elfì says.
"You left him?" Lëy'la says as she stood up slowly, "this whole time he's been lied to. He thought you were dead when in fact, you just left?"
"Who is this?" Elfì asks, looking at Rotxo's grandmother.
"It doesn't matter who I am. Why are you here to make it up after so many years? You are going to break his heart" Lëy'la says and then looks to his grandmother, "both of you."
"There was nothing else I could tell him. He was too young to understand that his mother left because she no longer wished to take care of him" his grandmother says.
"I was young! It was hard" Elfì says, "you can not blame me."
"Grandma, look I-" Rotxo walks in and immediately stops talking as he sees that his grandmother is not alone.
"Lëy'la? What are you doing here?" Rotxo asks.
"I just came to visit your grandma" Lëy'la replied, as she looked away from Elfì, coldly.
"Oh right" Rotxo let's out a light chuckle before he walks towards Lëy'la, "so she is my mate now."
He then turns to Elfì, seeing her look at him with teary eyes.
"Who is that?" Rotxo asks as he leans his face closer to Lëy'la.
However Lëy'la does not respond, as she could not. It felt as though something was stuck in her throat as she stood there, looking at Elfì.
"You should leave. This is a time for family" his grandmother comes forward to Elfì.
"Rotxo.. is that you?" She pushes his grandmother away and begins to walk towards him.
"Who are you? Don't push my grandmother like that" Rotxo says as he walks towards her, "are you okay?"
She nods in response, but looks at him worried.
He looks back to Elfì, "get out."
"Rotxo.."
"Get out! You have no right to come in here and just push my grandmother that way" Rotxo says.
"I'm your mother, Rotxo" Elfì says.
"What? Excuse me, but my mother no longer lives. You have got the wrong person" Rotxo says.
"Rotxo it's me. Elfì. Your mother" She walks towards him, cupping onto his cheeks, "you've grown up so much."
Rotxo's eyes soften as he looks into hers, feeling the warmth presence of his mother as he once did, when he was a child.
"No.. that's impossible" Rotxo whispers.
He pushes her away and looks to his grandmother, "tell me she's crazy."
"Rotxo, I can't-"
"Tell me she's lost her mind!" Rotxo shouts.
"Rotxo" Lëy'la calls out to him.
He looks at her and she nods, to let him know that Elfì, was in fact, his mother.
He looked back at his grandmother again, "w-what?" His voice becomes a whisper, as he feels his throat dry up, "I don't get.. you lied to me?"
"Rotxo, it is not what it seems" his grandmother tries to hold onto his hand but Rotxo moves away from her gently.
"How could you lie to me about something like this?" Rotxo looked at her, as he felt the betrayal hit his heart, quite harshly.
"I'm here, Rotxo. I'm here to explain everything to you-"
"I don't need you to!" Rotxo shouts as he looks back at his mother, "I have lived without you all these years and I'm fine with continuing to do so."
Without being able to hold his emotions, Rotxo walks out the marui.
Elfì tries to walk after him, before Lëy'la walks in front, hissing at her.
"You heard what he said. Go away" Lëy'la says, before she runs out, after Rotxo.
"Why are you doing this now Elfì? Hm? What is it that you want from us now?" His grandmother walks towards her, "whatever you want I will give to you. Just stop acting as though you want to be a part of his life, when the truth if you've left him. Twice!"
"I mean it this time-"
"I already gave you a chance once. I trusted you when you came back, that one time. And you broke it. I am not letting you enter his life now, only to destroy it. Take what you want, and leave. Whether it be everything I have or everything I own. Just take it, and leave!" His grandmother shouts, feeling herself break down right in front of her.
Only to feel her legs collapse.
She felt herself become weak.
"Sulë!" Elfì turns around to see Ronal shout Rotxo's grandmothers name, as she runs in, dropping the weaved blankets in her hand.
She kneels down beside his grandmother before he looks up at Elfì, who is stood there, not saying a word.
Not even trying to help.
Nothing.
"What have you done to her, Elfí!" Ronal shouts before she looks back down at Sulë.
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"Rotxo, wait" Lëy'la catches up to him and stops him from walking, as she turns him around.
"Why did they do this to me?" Rotxo asks her, as his heart continues to break more and more, with each breath he took.
Lëy'la hugs him tightly, as she tries her best to comfort him, "I'm sorry."
"She was the only family I had and she betrayed me" Rotxo says.
Lëy'la moves him back, to look at him as she cups onto both his cheeks, "your grandmother loves you, Rotxo. She loves you dearly. You are her only family and she is yours. She must have had a reason to do this. To not tell you the truth."
"What? Is it because my mother doesn't want me?" Rotxo asks.
Lëy'la bites her tongue before she shakes her head no, "anyone would be stupid not to want you. At the end of the day, whatever you choose to do I will be right behind you. But you must try to talk to her and understand her. You can't leave her. You are all she has."
She wipes the tiny tears dropping from his bottom lashes as she gives him a heartwarming smile, "it is hard to take in. But I'm right here. With you."
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Ao'nung and Neteyam are walking along together, laughing after they had just played a prank on Tsireya and Lo'ak.
"Hey, whilst we are waiting for them to go crazy and find us, how about we~?"
"No, Ao'nung. I am not doing it in risky places!" Neteyam snaps back.
"Oh come on! Don't you want to have fun?" Ao'nung asks.
"Everytime we have fun, it turns into more. Save it for when it's dark out. We can't let anyone see" Neteyam replies.
"You have done something to her! What have you done?"
"I've done nothing!"
Neteyam and Ao'nung both look at each other, after hearing shouting, coming from the direction of Rotxo's grandmothers marui.
Ao'nung then notices the blankets which his mother had earlier, dropped outside.
He runs in, as Neteyam follows behind.
"Mother, what is the mat-?" Ao'nung speaks but then stops, as he sees Rotxo's grandmother laying on the floor.
He looks back up at his mother, and strange women stood opposite her.
"You must tell Tsireya to bring my things. Now" Ronal says.
He nods and runs out.
"I'll get Rotxo" Neteyam replies as he runs in the opposite direction to find him.
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