Notes: I took alot of liberty with this one. The brief glimpses we get into the culture of Planet Fire has a strict Middle-Eastern feel. Any women we see are either cowled or little girls. I started thinking about royalty, and what place a woman would have in Planet Fire politics and monarchy, and realised there probably wasn't one. I then wondered if Pyrus had any kind of relationship with his mother, or if he even knew her. Thus, this little drabble.

Pyrus had never really cared about mothers before. He had been raised to accept that their place was in the background, especially when it came to crown princes. Women themselves weren t very important, even. It wasn t something he ever questioned before.

But then he met Zera, who was female, and who never stayed in the background. He got to know her, and started to learn just how important mothers were. To Zera, her mother was a hero, someone who never gave up, even at the end.

Pyrus wondered what his mother was like. He realised he really wanted to know.