Your mother is an overbearing tyrant. The power has weaseled its way into her head, and left room for nothing else. She lost her logic, her ethics, and her love. When she started talking about an oligarchy, I did all I could to help her see her mistakes. She pushed me away then, and taught you her opinions. You ate them up, harvesting the information but never letting it affect you. That was when I knew that I would have someone to take over the rebellion. And it would be safe...