The mother let Kelsey cry, allowing her to pour out everything that had been pent up in her heart—or, in Kelsey's case, everything that had been sealed away. Now that she could finally meet her daughter in person, how could a mere memory-erasing formation prevent her from being with her child?
Even though the memories were painful, Cassia wanted Kelsey to face them completely. She knew Kelsey had been hiding her despair from Deon behind a forced smile. And she also knew that her husband was aware of it—but he chose to wait patiently for Kelsey to speak about it herself.
But how could a mother behave the same way as a father?
So Cassia returned the memory to Kelsey's soul and restored her body to that of a child, exactly the same as when she had last seen her before hiding her in the basement.
No one knew how long Kelsey cried.
