mfw kabru and milsiril do love each other but kabru understands that the way she loves him will never amount to the same way he loves her due to the nature of long-lived and short-lived races’ inherent disconnect, or her love will never replace his birth mother’s love for him. being with her is bad for him yet he understands that she had no malicious intentions, and that’s what makes living with her much more suffocating. he refers to her as his mother to other people and to his own thoughts, but never outright calls her mother…