Everthing Out In The Open

Even though it was hard for her, Nyx listed off every one of her shortcomings and failures to her son one by one.

She listed off the days that she spent drinking in agony and even the times that she spent locked in terrible struggle against the sun gods.

But what required the most effort for her was the difficulty that lie in telling her son that she had let herself be drowned in carnal acts in a misguided bid to keep all of his remaining siblings safe.

Normally this would have been the part where he tried to kill himself out of sheer discomfort, but he sensed that his mother was truly trying to be vulnerable in this moment.

Long after Cami had fallen asleep in his arms, Nyx suddenly closed the distance between herself and her son and placed a hand on his cheek.