Whislt I don’t personally understand Aikirees’ first life, even with Mother trying to explain it in some sort of tangible way to “Tess” and I at a much younger age many many summers ago, whatever transpired through all of the Vana’Diel Echoes we encountered including this ‘Windurst’ one, seems to have given her a warmth that… I don’t believe I’ve ever seen before.
Sure Aiki is known for always looking on the up and up and seeing the best within someone, even a certain sythe welding Garlean we left out there at the edge of the universe, but this beaming warmth of a glow is certainly something else. Like it was missing all this time or simply “Tess” and I just never saw it clearly until now; whatever the case, I think a long lost part of her can be either put to rest or carried without burden here on out as we head onwards and prepare for our journey to the Fourth.