"You guessed right, little Xuan is really smart."
Erald Sparrow smoothed the hair that hung from the side of her face, combing it back behind her: "But it's okay, if you want to, you can also sleep like this, holding on to ."
"I don't want to." Bai Jingxuan shook her half-exposed head from under the blanket.
"Are you sure you don't want to?" Erald Sparrow looked straight at her.
"Uh huh, because I don't want to make mom uncomfortable." Bai Jingxuan answered honestly: "So, mom, you go to sleep first, so that I can sleep holding on to you."
"Then I'll go to sleep, okay?" Erald Sparrow confird.
"Okay, good night Mom."
"Alright, good night."
Erald Sparrow said this and then leaned in slightly, reaching out to gently rest her hand on Bai Jingxuan's shoulder.
"...Mom?"
"What is it?"
"That... your hand?" Bai Jingxuan asked sowhat uncertainly.
"Ah, is this not okay?"
Erald Sparrow appeared a bit troubled: "Do I really need to embrace you tightly to sleep?"
"Um, I... I actually want to sleep that way."
Bai Jingxuan struggled for a bit, then openly surrendered to her own desires: "But, if it's like this, I think I can manage."
"Is that okay?"
"Yeah, it's okay now."
"That's good."
So the room fell silent once again.
After a long while, Bai Jingxuan softly spoke again, without knowing what ti it was, while Erald Sparrow was in a state of half-sleep:
"Mom."
"What's wrong?"
"Teacher Asou told that if I want to go to the kingdom to take the exam, I might encounter a problem."
"What kind of problem?"
"Well, because I have the sa Magic Power as the Remnant Beasts, she said that whenever I transform into that really powerful state, the nature of my Magic Power becos different from others, or shall we say, it becos very similar to those bad guys from Claw Mark. In that case, it's very likely that I will be recognized, and then I might be seen as a bad person by everyone in the kingdom."
"Did she tell you this?"
"Yes."
"What do you think?"
"Huh?"
"Do you think you are one of those bad guys from Claw Mark?"
"Of course not!"
"Is that so, then there is no problem."
"Ah? No problem?" Bai Jingxuan was still sowhat puzzled: "But after all, it's really Remnant Beasts' Magic Power..."
"Yes, there is no problem, because Mom has told you before, right? What's important has never been how others view you but how you view yourself."
In a voice filled with sleepiness, Erald Sparrow whispered, "No matter how others may define your life, only what you want for yourself, what you believe in, that's what will truly be you."
"Is that so?" Bai Jingxuan was still not sure.
"It is." Erald Sparrow was confident.
"But I feel like I can't completely ignore these things yet, and if I can't control my Magic Power and I'm discovered..."
Bai Jingxuan's voice was slightly hesitant: "I don't want to be seen as Claw Mark, and I don't want to be treated as Remnant Beasts."
"It's okay."
Erald Sparrow spoke softly: "Nothing like that will happen, because even if it does co to that, I'll be there."
"Mom's there..."
"I am, so I won't let anything like that happen."
Erald Sparrow's voice grew fainter: "Does that make you feel reassured?"
"...Yes."
Bai Jingxuan's voice also cald down: "I feel reassured."
She lay there for a while, her eyes exposed from under the blanket looking at Erald Sparrow's sleeping face, and before long, she softly spoke again: "Mom."
"If you don't go to sleep, I'm going to get angry."
"I like you the most."
Bai Jingxuan suddenly said this.
And then the room beca quiet once again.
This silence lasted much longer than before, so much so that Bai Jingxuan wasn't sure if Erald Sparrow had heard her, whether she was asleep.
Much later, she could just make out Erald Sparrow's muffled voice from across the room:
"...Thank you, Mom is very happy, good night."
Bai Jingxuan took a while to make out what was said, and after carefully considering it, she too felt pleased.
She took one last look at Erald Sparrow, who seed to have fallen asleep, and then, feeling quite content, she closed her eyes.
—"Good night, Mom."
With a whisper, she brought the night to a close.
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