This was the beginning in canon of Maci's carefully teetering tower of stifled, buried, compartmentalized trauma stretching back from many hundreds of years in the past, finally beginning to disintegrate. Neo was elated to have her scythe, something that she recognized intrinsically as a birthright - even as Maci visibly shrank back from it, and visibly pulled away from Neo herself. Logically, Maci knew that a simple symbolic weapon, the daughter she loved and cherished, and the specter of the villain who had tormented her, were three entirely separate things that had little to do with each other. But Maci was not thinking rationally. She was so distressed ''anyway'' by the rehabilitation project of Chal, that the presence of Neo's scythe was too much for her to bear. During this time, Maci's psyche crumbled. The collapse had been coming for ''millennia.''

==Raz==