"…"
Arthur didn't answer Echidna's question. He silently narrowed his eyes, already feeling that this question-and-answer session wasn't going to lead anywhere he'd like.
Echidna didn't mind his silence, though.
"If anyone from Hell was going to know you still draw breath, then it should have been Diablo," she said. "No one else should have known.
Unless you had some specific series of actions you wanted her to take that required her to know of your survival, then the only reason you told your mother becomes the fact that you simply didn't want to burden her with the knowledge that you were gone for good when you weren't.
That's why I say you're soft…much too soft for the path you intend to tread upon."
Echidna vanished from Arthur's side and reappeared on the seat opposite him, a soft smile on her face as she said, "You still have emotional limits that you refuse to cross. That's dangerous considering the ambition you revealed to me during your last visit.
