No, perhaps you should not have. [And Ithaqua should not have seen this moment twice. It was difficult enough the first time, when he brought Mother home after their experiences in town.

Looking at the face of his younger self, who has not turned into a monster yet, whose eyes are still a normal, human white. The eyes are the only difference, because everything else between them are the exact same-- would be the exact same, if Ithaqua were not bundled up in all those layers.]

And yet here we are. [And there his younger self goes, scuttling away from his mother after having been frozen in place, in shock, grief, disbelief, for so long.] As you can see, Mother fared quite poorly in the place she was prior to this.

[The chain around her neck and all the injuries should tell enough of a story.]