Say It Ain't So

Rob's apparent lack of imagination surprised Osprey, because as it happens with creative people, she had half-expected for him to have just as wild and impossible dream. Fly, for example, catch a dragon, kiss a frog-princess etc. But then again - she knew nothing of his background and probably shouldn't be so harsh on him. If settling down and having a family was something he thought was impossible to achieve, then she had no right to judge it.

"That's a bit personal," she told him, but he had been honest with her too. "Maybe. I enjoy the idea of having children and a mate someday. Not right now though," that was true. Her top priority now was to stick with Peregrine and be a good sister and friend to him. "What makes you a wanderer and not the so-called "permanent settler"?"