I did not choose her, my hive did. She fought. No one appreciates being eradicated. She ran, in fact, and - Riley's memory wasn't her own, it had been given to her by her father so that she would always know what her life had cost them, and what she owed the hive in return. - The host.. wasn't returned to me in time. There were casualties. But in the end, I took her, and she could not fight me once I was inside. Riley tapped her forehead with a single claw. All gone.
The hesitance arose again, as she understood the reason why Moon asked, and became wary of the consequences. She was just a child. She was of no use to the hive. Amrita is no child. She, and all she has cultivated, exist in the path of greatness.
A path Riley once lived in. A path she, of her own choices, had all but abandoned in favor of the path of destruction.
Time is the only uncertainty in all of our existences. Riley reminded her. As in it being just a matter of. Riley did not fear death. Just failure. What will you do, if and when your kin are reunited?
Enoh Love
