She wrinkled her nose, nodded silently. She looked at the corpse, she knew that corpse, she had seen it before. "He does be thinking everything of you, that's why he did be doing it."

Of course, he would do anything to keep him safe, he could have beaten them, but he didn't. For the boy he loved.

She was just only starting to understand family, but she thought this explained much of it, this showed what it was.

Pain and grief, but also... something deeper. The scene shifts, not completely. It is still there, but it is overlaid with a battle, Sanzo and another man, carrying another sutra, fighting on a mountain, the whole world shaking with their power. She is in Devero's arms as he tries to keep her away, clearly torn between obeying an order to run and helping Sanzo.

"He do be protecting people too much."