"You are allowed to make mistakes, Leiko. You have myself, and you have your father. We might not be the best parents in Nana, we might have been absent, but we are all that you have got. And nothing in this world will change that, not even Murmur."
She finally spoke the name aloud. The moment the syllable left her lips, she felt a phantom, chilling gaze pierce through the very space around her, pressing against her soul from some distant depth. But Yuki didn't flinch. She kept her eyes locked entirely on her son.
"I gave birth to no fool," she said, her voice steady against the unseen pressure. "Go back to him. Tell him that I accept his extended hand for help."
