I like this female: submissive, good-mannered, pretty, affable, mousy and yet I can sense her pride and self-sacrificing disposition for a bigger cause than herself, adorable. The fact that she already loves me unconditionally is just frost over the cake. Maybe I am not willing to have a conversation with her, but a way for unilateral message delivery is in urgent need, so ... let's kill her and request to be her friend.
Gladys' point of view:
While looking at the beautiful eyes of my daughter a sudden chill assault me and I can't focus my eyes anymore, all I see is that turquoise color engulfing my soul. I can feel it, my mana is being drained at an incredible pace. What is happening? I was perfectly fine a second ago. Everyone knows that is virtually impossible to die of mana exhaustion, the same way is impossible to die from holding your breath, you would just pass out so the last layer of mana is never consumed. But this is different, mana extraction is possible under special circumstances but all those rituals require the active cooperation of the subject. As an epiphany I suddenly realize that is my daughter the one forcefully draining my mana and ending my life.
Maybe I should resist, I can feel that this mana draining process is a little slower because my mana has been compacted and it's extra density gives me a flimsy protection. No ... that would change nothing and would only show to my daughter the ugly image of a bug twitching it's feet in pain before dying. She was just born, she probably made a mistake with her incredible powers that would now cost my life and probably leave her psychologically scarred for life thinking she is a monster. This could very well be the moment when a path of self-hate and isolation starts for her, I have to do anything in my power in this last moments to avoid that.
With my last strength I try to smile towards her and whisper: "I love you Aurora ... please live a beautiful life for my sake".
I try to lean over to deliver a final kiss, but all strength abandons me. Suddenly the world goes quiet and becomes gray, while I see a little white dot in the center of my vision growing progressively as I am forced to advance towards the light. But just before the white light fills half my field of vision I can feel the powerful mana of my daughter stopping me in place and then pulling me back close to her. Then a very small but incredibly dense piece of her mana engulfs me and the strangest thing happens: I can again think again clearly as if awoken of a dream and I can even clearly sense everything up to a certain distance.
In this space where time have stopped, where even light is frozen in place and therefore nothing can be seen, somehow I can feel around with my mana-perception sense in a way I never knew or heard was possible. Suddenly, I can feel two connections been formed, one to my dead body and the other one to my daughter. I try to communicate with Aurora, to ask where we are and what's happening. But I could sense that while my shouts were transmitted as vibrations generated from my soul and transmitted across the layer of mana that covered it, the moment the vibration reached the frontier of my existence, the incredible dense mana of Aurora dampens the vibration to nothingness in an instant without reaching her core. I realized that in this place my existence was fragile and tiny, and the boundary where my mana-perception ended was the boundary of my daughters existence, embracing me and letting me share what she feels. I had to wonder for a moment who is the parent and who is the child.
I could feel my daughter being pleased with me, I could even imagine her telling me I am a "good girl" with a beatific smile while caressing my cheek, could it be just my imagination?
End of Gladys' point of view
Aurora started to suck mana from outside her dominion and making it converge around Gladys soul, gradually increasing the size of her existence inside the soul-space while conveying to her without using words the following messages: as long as the connection stays in place her existence as an independent entity comes to an end, if she so wishes she can continue to share this special bond offered to her by Aurora, this connection transcends death itself, the connection can only be severed by Aurora without her dying (if she wish to sever the connection she has to do it now or wait until her life is over), because the disparity in mana quality she would probably never be able to send complex speech-like messages to Aurora using the connection but Aurora can, if she is near Aurora the connection will naturally let her know her state of mind and desires, the connection is not for long range communication while alive, if Gladys dies she can use the connection to contact Aurora inside the soul-space regardless of the distance between them at the time of death (so please don't go to the light immediately) and finally that there are other uses for the connection but for now she doesn't need to know them.
Aurora was a little distracted because of a message of her original world she found inside the mail-box embedded in her anima and actually increased the mana capacity of Gladys way beyond of what she initially planned, forcing Aurora to imprint a small anima-sensor circuit over the layer of mana closest to her soul to avoid the danger of Gladys' mana going berserk after reviving. "I will respond later, better concentrate on this for now."
After Aurora conveyed the general terms of the soul "Friend-request" to Gladys she waits for her to make her decision, "I hope she doesn't do something stupid like break the connection and then run away towards the path of reincarnation on this planet, I would probably be treated as a monster if my biological mother is found death with me in her arms and not a single injury. On that note, it is extremely admirable that when I killed her she didn't felt resentment or even fear and even told me she loved me with puppy eyes, she just got herself some brownie points. Mmm ... I think she likes magic, I will alter that anima-sensor so that she can naturally learn and copy any magic of this world that is executed inside her mana-sensing range.
Gladys finally got out her stupor and started a series of movements that made it seem like her soul was dancing around Aurora, trying to convey her gratitude and happiness to her daughter. This dancing didn't convey any of that to Aurora and even made her a little nervous, she was wondering if her biological mother has just gone insane because the events that took place broke her fragile mind. Gladys could sense Aurora's apprehension, so she quickly moved towards her body. She would convey to her daughter how wonderful she was the next time she is again breathing.