[private] somehow make a meaning of the poison in this place

[Catryn]

The voice of Rosebay changes after the mention of Pangea, strained instead of smooth. The news that it had been this girl’s mother that had been eaten by the earth surprises Catryn, her useless eyes widening a little. “Oh.” It doesn’t occur to Catryn to offer her condolences or even apologize for the cavalier way she had spoken of the incident. She wasn’t aware that others cared for their mothers or that they even had a decent relationship with them. Her own had tried to eat her soon after birth, and she had only been saved by the bravery of her twin. It had seemed logical, to her, to assume this was the natural order of things. That parents try to eat their young and everyone who grows up past infancy had simply been saved or was strong enough to defend themselves. Catryn, when she spared her mother a thought, would have happily pushed her into the earth to be eaten. “Are you a twin too?” She asks instead of speaking aloud the thoughts of matricide that are buzzing through her mind. This, perhaps, is a safe subject for them to talk about.

@[rosebay]