—(Solar)—

"Sunrise!"
I run over to her, then I immediately hit her in the arm.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
"By the gods, I don't need two screaming boys today."
She points to Vapor.
"Then don't teleport away!"
"I'm sorry... I just needed some time to think. Where's Mom?"
"Back at the house."
"Thanks."

—(Sunrise)—

I needed to apologize to her.
I probably should've apologized a long time ago.

"Sunrise!"
"Mom... I need to talk to you."
"About what?"
"I... I'm sorry."
"Sorry about what?"
"About everything! About running away, about being cold, a-about..."

I pause.

"You died."
"I know."
"And then you became a goddess."
"I know."
"You left us... you left me!"
"I... I know."
"You didn't tell us! You didn't tell us anything! S-so I didn't know. I-I didn't know about Lucifer."

My Mom flinched at the sound of him. She looked to the ground.

"I'm sorry."
"No! I'm sorry! You... you saved everyone. I don't even know how you did it, but you did! But you left! I was so angry for so long and I bottled it all up! BECAUSE YOU LEFT!"
"I didn't want to. I really didn't."
"I know. But I was angry. I was so angry. Somewhere along the line, I thought you wanted to leave. I thought there was something wrong. Something wrong with me!"

She wraps me in a hug.

"There was nothing wrong, except for him."

I felt her tense up a bit, but she sighed.

"I'm so sorry."
"You did nothing wrong."
"I was the one that left."
"You did it for everyone."
"I knew."
"What?"
"I'm a goddess, you don't think that I didn't know where you were? I just... knew you wanted to be alone."
"Thank you, Mom."