Rox leaned back, now that she had cleaned her plate of food and had at least three pieces of toast, and shot Nyx an amused glance. He summed it up nicely, but it certainly made it sound lighter and less devastating than those years had been. But Rox had never hidden the truth from her daughters. Rinka had asked and while Nyx's answer was certainly his side of things, it wasn't hers.

She turned back to her daughter and crossed her arms. "Yes, and no, Aurene," Rox said quietly. "His first flub gave me hope he'd show up one day. The rest of the glaives, the only family I had left, had cut me out. When I saw Nyx again... Well, let's just say I thought he had cut me out too. So if there was sexual tension, it kind of died there. But, I guess, unconsciously I just measured up every guy I met to Nyx and found them all...just not him." She shrugged.

"I messed up too," she added, looking over to Rinka this time. "I should've demanded he talk to me and not ignore me. I should've called him out. I didn't. Instead I went home, licked my wounds, took care of the only person, and not long after that two little persons, who loved me. My one attempt to really move past him... Well, yeah." They'd already talked about it. "After that I just gave up because it wasn't worth the damn energy. Nobody was Nyx and I couldn't have Nyx, so fuck it." She shrugged again. "What surprised me was how easily it was, after all this damn time, to fall right back into talking to him." And finding him stupidly attractive.

"Of course, thanks to Drautos, I spent a month convincing myself that he really didn't care because he'd came back and was just as quickly gone." She turned back to Aurene and motioned to her phone. "If it wasn't for Prompto and Noctis, I figured Nyx would never have come back into my life."

Her attention went to him and she gave him another rueful smile. "So I owe the boys. For, if nothing else, giving me the chance I never took myself."