God of War:Berenice's Adventure

Chapter Six - A new mission

After this macabre development, after Berenice's attempt to forget everything that was stopping her and after finding chests and treasures, Kratos finds yet another magical chest from which he drank more blood mead, which increased the size of his Spartan Rage, without telling his daughter.

As their father is all about chests and blocking the poison Berenice sits next to her brother, kneeling in front of a fire they found under an open hill and waits until her father finishes his treasure hunt.

Atreus:Your new armor is nice, Berrie!
Berenice:My other armor was squeezing me. I'm glad we met the dwarves, they did an excellent job for us! Maybe the things you collect will do good after all, father.
Atreus:Are all dwarves weird like Brok and Sindri?
Kratos:No.
Atreas:I wonder why they don't get along.
I mean, they are family!
Kratos:That's their business, boy.
Atreas:I'll glad the two of us are a very good team! If we ever do business we will share it what do you say?
Berenice:What? Have a business, together? All I know how to make are poems, jewelry and perfumes.
Atreus:Don't you know how to make those little wooden statues?
Berenice:And who would buy them?

Kratos, after finishing his search, approaches his children by the fire so that their path continues.

Kratos:Let's go.

To move forward, they go to the upper hill and climb the rocks until they finally reach the top of the mountain, after such a long day...

Atreus:Are we close to the mountain?
Kratos:Yes.
Berenice:Well, if you exclude walking, climbing, draugr, trolls, and everything else that will delay us, it's probably not quite time for us to arrive.
Atreus:Uhh... you're really positive.
Kratos:She is speaking the truth, boy.

When they reach the top hill and unfreeze the several poison pillars that they encounter in their path, and also collide with a Revenant, they find another straight stone hill ahead of them to climb.
During this climb Atreus again starts talking, as he usually does when they climb.

Atreas:How about me and Berrie carry her for the last few steps?
Kratos:No.
Atreus:Well, at least let's carry some of the ashes each of us.
Kratos:I said, no.

At the beginning of this conversation, Berenice feels deeply emotional by the thought of her brother and perhaps she too wants to carry her to the top.
After all, she was her mother and she has the right too. And although her father's stubbornness irritates her, she knows that even if she talks to him, her efforts will be futile. It's really awful for her to think that she can't carry her own mother, but she's been through worse than that...

And despite her thought Atreus continues talking and this time he says something that for the first time Berenice does not approve and for a moment their father stops climbing...

Atreus:Why? I mean, she meant more to me and Berrie.
Kratos:What?
Atreus:I mean... we used to spent more time together. You were gone away hunting.
Kratos:Stop talking!

The way her father said "Stop talking" wasn't strictness or high expectations. It was disappointment.
For the first time after so many harsh words from her father she does not agree with her brother.

Atreus may not have understood, but as a grown up girl, Berenice recognizes the feelings of others and in her father she even recognizes his sadness and mourning.
Her mother despite not spending much time with her father always respected him, did not fear him or live under his orders. She loved him. And her mother would never marry him unless she had a good reason.
Faye did mean a lot to Kratos. And she was more than just a warrior or honorable woman. She was the light in his dark tunnel. Atreus couldn't just claim otherwise so easily. It wasn't right or needed.