"You're saying Mother most likely went into hiding with her ex-boyfriend to live happily ever after?"
After hearing all the information Kahn had gathered, Azula wore an expression that was hard to describe.
"Well, you can't quite put it that way, and that isn't what matters, anyway,"
Kahn said, scratching his cheek awkwardly.
Discussing a friend's mother's romantic gossip with that friend was awkward enough to make his toes claw out a three-bedroom apartment.
"What matters is the existence of the deity, the Mother of Faces. She might know something, and might even have helped her directly. If we can meet her."
"But we don't have time to gamble on that kind of luck."
Azula cut straight to the problem.
According to Misu, the Mother of Faces only visited Forgetfulness Valley once each season, meaning there were only four chances to meet her each year. When she arrived, all sorts of facial markings would appear on the plants and animals in the forest.
At that time, her subordinate spirit, the Wolf Spirit, would randomly choose one of the forest's three lakes to stop at and drink, and the Mother of Faces would linger there for a while as well.
If someone was lucky enough to choose the right lake and meet the Mother of Faces, they could ask her for a favor; otherwise, once the Wolf Spirit finished drinking, the Mother of Faces would leave.
And the Wolf Spirit only spent a few minutes drinking.
In other words, there were only a few minutes each season in which to meet the Mother of Faces, and even that depended on choosing the right lake, because the distances between the three lakes were far too great to cover in a few minutes.
That alone showed how difficult meeting the Mother of Faces