Well, that's wrong! [It might be blunt, but she can't see how raising anyone that way could be considered right. It's actually frightening to her. If Witches back home considered business more important than family, Euri isn't sure she'd even be here right now. All of her extended family hates her because of what she is, but her mother always cared about her.

Her mother, who gave up working in the huge city of Mactech to raise her on a tiny farm out in the boonies of Fuggum. If she had cared about business more than her daughter....]

People should always be first! If they aren't they'll leave you. Everyone wants to feel needed, and if you don't give that to them you'll wind up completely alone!