The Sentinels circle of perversion

"That's true, but that does not mean that they should push you out of the picture. You are one of the most important and influental people in her life," Osprey scratched behind her ear as she told this. "It will be fine - one way or another," she did not see, how it should not be. Deirdre was to meet a lot of scary things in her life and eventually this early recollection of violence would be forgotten. 

"Stories - it has been a while, hasn't it," she was happy to oblige. "Can't keep all of the good ones to Dante, can I." Ever since they had begun to share the same living quarters again, she had this ritual of telling him bed-time stories. Longer, shorter, better and not so good, but always something. "So, what do you fancy to hear today?"