Upon hearing of her son’s return, the Merlion’s mother had forced her husband to talk to the Council about allowing her access to their son, fuming that she did not already know of his return. This they eventually allowed, agreeing it as the first part of his “rehabilitation and resettlement with his kind”.
The Merlion’s mother approached her son’s cage carefully, unsure of quite what she would find, of how alien her son might seem, of what the intervening years might have done.
Within the cage, the Merlion and the boy saw a Merlion who was new to them approach and came across to meet her.
Upon seeing her son’s eyes look out at her everything changed, all caution left as the Merlion’s mother saw the eyes she had looked into as a baby, the eyes that she had seen every time she closed her own since they had been taken away from her as she slept.
And she broke down and wept for some time before revealing her identity.
Then they boy retreated, allowing the Merlion and his mother to speak at length of their individual lives- he of his time on Singapore and his reason for returning (his mother quickly thinking of a suitable mate) and she of their family and her life on the island before and after his kidnapping.
By the end of the afternoon she had agreed to help his cause and try to convert the Merlion’s father. Before she could, however, the breakout began.
The Merlion’s mother approached her son’s cage carefully, unsure of quite what she would find, of how alien her son might seem, of what the intervening years might have done.
Within the cage, the Merlion and the boy saw a Merlion who was new to them approach and came across to meet her.
Upon seeing her son’s eyes look out at her everything changed, all caution left as the Merlion’s mother saw the eyes she had looked into as a baby, the eyes that she had seen every time she closed her own since they had been taken away from her as she slept.
And she broke down and wept for some time before revealing her identity.
Then they boy retreated, allowing the Merlion and his mother to speak at length of their individual lives- he of his time on Singapore and his reason for returning (his mother quickly thinking of a suitable mate) and she of their family and her life on the island before and after his kidnapping.
By the end of the afternoon she had agreed to help his cause and try to convert the Merlion’s father. Before she could, however, the breakout began.
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