Just like the kids of the Verhen household, the sudden distance between their respective families confused the children, making them think that they had done something wrong at first.
Once their mother had reassured them multiple times, however, the trauma that Fallmug had inflicted upon them made Filia and Frey fear that Lith had turned out to be like their late father.
"Gods, no!" The three adults said in unison.
"Don't worry, kids." Kamila said while caressing them. "Lith never hurt me and he would never do you any harm. It's just that he had many secrets and some of them are too much for me. I'm just sad, you have my word."
Zinya thanked the gods for making children so blunt and yet capable of cracking the toughest armor. Now that she had an idea of what had happened, there was just one question left in her mind.
"Did he cheat on you?" She asked, making Kamila threw such a mean look at her to understand that it wasn't that the case.
