Serpent Lake have you tried turning it off and on again?

he longed fiercely for the days of tartok, and yet he did not, for such a time had its own complications, implications. siku had shown one emotion to the outside world, and that had been anger backed by the sharp edge of her teeth. but she was also a warm beast when she wished, affectionate, passionate. taltos wondered if kero had experienced any of the same from his feral mate. in the recesses of his heart, he rather doubted this.

he smiled; it was so simple, and yet the very baseness of it was purely tartok. it also provided one viable answer for his earlier inner query; tonravik surely was only doing her duty to their yoke out of necessity for the children. such was his assumption, though he did not know if it was true. "and now you shall be the father of a nation," he mused with a brief smile.