The last time she'd held Aoife had been so long ago, more than a decade, and she honestly hadn't expected that she would see her again. There were other mortal children that she'd lost touch with as well, but usually it was when they were older and proved somehow disappointing for the goddess. Aoife was different, Aoife had been taken, kidnapped away in the middle of the night never to be seen again by her evil conniving father.
"I missed you too," she told the girl. She kept hugging her until the ding! of the elevator announced they were at her floor. The doors opened into the marble foyer of her apartment and she ushered Aoife in. "You've grown up in a stunning woman," she told Aoife, gesturing for her to sit in the living room.