WE'RE SO YOUNG, BUT / joining

[nemhain.]

Nemhain seemed to have an unnatural ability to get along with children. This was not anything intentional on her part, since the persona hardly knew how you were supposed to interact positively with younglings, but evidently she had some trait about her that made them flock to her. Perhaps it was just her size that made it so that children saw her as a natural brood mother, one who was big and strong enough to protect them. It wouldn't have surprised her, at least going off what she had read and gathered from Rin's memories. And she had done a lot of reading on the subject, mainly in order to soothe her own confusion over what purpose a mother figure actually served. She had done the same for father figures, but considering how Sanzu and Spanishkit stumbled after her calling her Nem, Mom, and Mama, she didn't think that was very relevant to her own troubles. Either way, after a lot of research, Nemhain found that she didn't really mind it much that children saw her as naturally trustworthy. After all, she was going to protect everyone within Elysium anyways, so why wouldn't she protect the children too? And if they chose to see her as some sort of mother figure, so be it.

This was why, when Nemhain found herself drawn over to the scene of a slightly burned child sitting within their snow mountain territory, she didn't feel any anxiety over Aleifr feeling drawn to her. If they did, they did, and if they didn't, they didn't. It wouldn't be causing her to shed her feathers in anxiety anytime soon. Landing nearby to Rin and Wheatley, Nemhain looked over the child silently before she spoke, intrigued by how they possibly could've gotten such wounds, "Do you have parents nearby, as well? Any sort of family?" They would be far from the first orphan child to show up on Elysium's border, even in the last month, but Nem felt the need to ask, just to see if they would soon be followed up by larger company as well.