Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25169271-20160320185624/@comment-25169271-20171028200201

Alice felt a flurry of emotions well up within her as Aliza announced that Helena was inded her mother. Confusion, anger, sadness, happiness, there were too many to register at once and it was overwhelming the girl. She couldn't think, and the stress combined with the events of the day was causing Alice's mind to reel back to her childhood.

When Helena stood in front of Alice she stood as well, her mind returning to her hellish childhood. It reminded her of when the instructors would line the children up to 'inspect the product'. She felt as though she was being measured and judged. Though she looked mostly calm outside, internally Alice's mind was in a frenzy. Her fight or flight response was screaming at her to react, to lash our or run away.

When Helena reached up to touch her face Alice almost reacted by snapping the woman's arm but stopped herself when her finger tips touched her face. It brought back something from her childhood before the facility. It wasn't a memory, but more of an emotion. It was a feeling of warmth and happiness, and more importantly it was from before she met Darian. She smiled as the memory came back to her and saw Helena smiling as well. As Helena, as her mother hugged her Alice became overwhelmed with a feeling of joy. Before long she began to cry tears of joy as she tightly hugged her mother. "Mom," she stated as she held the other woman tightly against her chest.