I don't that child was human. I don't know what she was but the circumstances were too strange. [Ai knew children well. While it was true children often didn't know what was harmful and what wasn't, from what she could remember from that scenario there would have been enough alarm bells for any child even a naive one.]

It was more the other way around. She was comforting me. She chose me to be her mother. [No, there was no mistaking it. In pain and dying there was no way she could have offered comfort to anyone in that state. Her eyes closed. That child chose her to be 'Mother-Master', whatever that meant. She takes a drink and stops.

She was meant to be a mother? Yes, that was right but unlike with Luna the child chose her. She gives out a small laugh, unlike her normal giggle.] Some occult child chose me to be her mother. It's almost funny.