Responses
This chapter shows that her mother didn't even know kindness existed. Her mother was truly blind to her. She was constantly drowning in the unfairness of the world. She thought that marrying her off to the old count would protect her. She didn't do it out of greed alone.
lyrica’s mother was the way she was because of her circumstances. and it’s so poetic how lyrica was the way she was—both in the first life to this, despite these circumstances. 2 sides of the same coin, 2 different reactions to the hands they were both dealing with.
i empathize greatly with her mother and what she had to go through, but abandoning and abusing lyrica’s kindness is inexcusable. which is why all the more i’m rooting for her in their current life, she gets to atone for sins in this way and repay her with all the love lyrica deserves and more. and it feels so much better as a reader too because lyrica’s mother is very aware of this.