"Grandma is a terrifying monster who is equally well-versed in both classical poetry and cutthroat business. She wasn't just miraculously born that way. Her mother might have been a traditional wife who suffered, but she made a choice. Grandma's mother acted as a shield. She stopped that generational scar from fully passing onto her daughter's body. She absorbed the pain and stopped eighty percent of the trauma."
Heena looked back out the window toward the Vanguard estate.
"And then, when Grandma had her own son—my father—she stopped the cycle completely. And when they got their granddaughter—the original Seera—Grandma literally did not let a single lick of that submissive, victim-mentality scar touch her body."
She turned her sharp, fox-like eyes back to the glowing System.
