"Is this why my room is empty?" Kairo asked, his head turning away from Cleora to look around.
"Yes." Cleora answered and kept her hand pressed on Coco's stomach, eyes barely glancing at the hybrid. "But my people weren't the ones who emptied out your rooms."
"Then who?" Alhai inquired, eyebrows furrowing.
"I did." Coco spoke up and was quickly followed by a pained groan. "Mama, that hurts—"
"Deal with it." Cleora grumbled, eyebrows furrowed in annoyance. "If you didn't lie to my face earlier, then this would have been healed already, but no! You just have to lie and wait for it to be worse."
"It's not like I wanted to lie.." Coco mumbled, averting her gaze from her mother's judging eyes.
"Really?" Cleora raised an eyebrow, her hand sliding up on Coco's stomach for her healing slime to start working on the darkening bruise there. "So it was my fault you lied then?"
"No?" Coco answered, frowning.
