The silence in the hall was broken
"Oha, is that true?" Apathy asked with a broken voice, face marred with tears, "Is she not going to come back anymore?"
Oha looked at the little child who had just lost her mother and stayed silent, she felt as if she had aged decades the past few days, sigh…
Heaving a tired, weak sigh, she spoke, "Apathy, your mother Lola, she… was a great Wuma," she paused, then said: "She was a great woman, a person all of us admire, all of us will keep in our heart, but little Apathy, you have to know, the path of Wuma is cruel, each step you take is racked with destruction, one step failed and it is over. There is no turning back."
Apathy's blue eyes shined with glistening tears, her face turned pale and she lifelessly fell onto the floor, "But she is my mom…" she whimpered out, "She promised! She promised she will see me become a totem Warrior!!"
Oha gently caressed her back and said in a sad voice: "She is now looking after you from heaven Ami, and she will only want to see her little Apathy happy forever… so try not to cry."
Apathy nodded with a tear-streaked face, biting her lips.
Each second that passed felt hellish, from now on, there won't anymore be a woman who would call her Ami and smile as she hugged her.
Each memory of her mother felt like a precious moment, she could still remember how just yesterday, she had pouted and acted annoyed as her mother fed her, she could still remember that love-filled gaze.
Her tears fell down like a rivulet: "Oha… My mother died…' she cried out weakly, her snot and tears trickling down and stuck on her face that had yet to mature, "…Maa" she called out.
But this time, there was no "What Ami?" that came right after, her mother was dead.
There was no Lola in her life anymore.
Taking a deep breath in, holding her tears back, she promised to herself, saying aloud, "Maa, you just wait, your little Ami promise you to become a great Wuma, I will surpass..sniffle…I will surpass even the totem warriors and become a Great Wuma one day.
I promise you.