"Dandel'lhia, a word?" I said once she came out of her room. And I made sure that she had no room to go. No way to get out of this. She would understand and move aside or I would remind her of my supremacy!
"W-What do y-you want?" she fearfully croaked as she recoiled against the door she just closed. It made me smile on the inside. She paid attention to the lessons I had taught her prior!
"Your son." I told her. Yet, her behaviour suddenly switched.
"I've told you to stay away from him!" she snaps in my face as confidence fills her body.
"And you know this is no place to be raising him." I snort, unimpressed by her inferior strength.
"That wouldn't be an issue if it weren't for you!" she growls.
"For me? It is not my fault you stole him from his home!"
"He's my son!" she angrily reminds me as if I could ever forget.
I snort once more, "He's the Gilded-Bar-" I start to say before my cheek suddenly stings. A loud clap rings out into my ears while my face burns mildly.
"STAY AWAY FROM MY SON!" she roars angrily as what little magic she has started to flare up.
So, to show her I was not intimidated in the slightest, "You dare!?" I snap as I hoisted her up before slamming her against the door. Smashing her against it again and again with thunderous bangs until I suddenly stopped. The sapling was crying...
"MAMA!" her son cried fearfully before I suddenly found myself knocked away.
"Shhh, shh, it's alright!" Dandel'lhia softly told him as she opened up the door to pick him up. And I grew angry as I watched her hold him.
"Get your hands off of him, Thief!" I snap.
Yet she holds up a magic-covered palm at me, "Come near my son and I will kill you." she growls.
"You dare!?" I say once again as my magic suddenly glows brighter than hers.
"Mama!" her son cried once again. And, as if he was a switch, our magics both died out.
"Leave us alone... You've done enough harm, Root." she spits before she slams the door at me.
"I AM AN IVY-MOTHER!" I angrily scream as I force the door open. Only to force myself to calm down when I saw his beautiful little face.
"Then act like one..." she points out as she bounces her son up in her arms.
"I am..." I meekly mutter under my breath before I sigh.
"Go!" Dandel'lhia demanded as she protectively held onto him.
"I know how to get back to our flower, you know." I then say. Both a truth and a lie, but, I did have a way.
"H-How...?" Dandel'lhia questions as her son started to calm down slightly.
"You'd have to be an Ivy-Mother to know what I am talking about." I bluff. In reality, I just had an idea which way our Garden-Mount was.
"Then you owe it to me, the Gilded-Bark who loved me and the son our love created!" she mockingly reminded me as she aggressively rose to her points.
"I owe it to him to make sure he knows what is expected of him..." I quietly remark towards her son as he looked at me with uncertainty.
"Then fix your mistake!"
"I will, once you give him to me!"
"I am his mother, you childless failure." she mocks.
"Yes, and what I great one you have been..." I remark sarcastically.
"Oh? You know what it means to be one? I am sorry, but I see no signs of a seed having ever been here!" she tells me aggressively before she jabs at my stomach.
"Why you..." I growl before I hear footsteps from behind.
"Everything alright up there?" one of the men call.
"It's fine, just dropped something."
"Your pathetic pride, maybe." Dandel'lhia comments.
"Don't worry, everything is alright." I tell whoever it is down the stairs. Holding back the anger that comment helped to create before I turned towards her.
"So? Will you be taking me back home? Will you do your job, Ivy-Mother and make sure my family is alright?" she mockingly asks me while I kept my eyes on her son.
"Family..." he ends up repeating for any number of reasons.
"I will." I firmly declare. And while I was upset that it did not go to plan, I suppose this was fine enough.
"Then, you best start getting ready." she tells me before I am pushed out of the room while my mind lingered.
"Right, I need to make sure we are ready for a long journey..." I say as my mind focused on her son. I owed that sapling so much... Even if I gave it up, the mindset was still with me. In the name of the First Mother, in her name, I would perform my duties again!
And maybe... I could figure out how to make my Love love me... If it was at all possible. I had plenty of time to think about it, I know but...
This just all felt so sudden...