Larksong Grotto His goal in life was to be an echo

Turning his head only briefly to watch as Jhala settled in a fair distance away, Reek immediately turned his gaze back to the lake. Snorting in the irony of her mention of it being a long day, Reek shook his head. If she only knew the half of it, he thought to himself. "Yeah," he replied, intonation flat and lifeless.

For a while after, Reek sat in silence. He simply found himself unable to articulate the conflicting emotions that were currently waging war in his stomach. The facts, however, those could be stated. "Tavi's pregnant," he finally said after a long spell of silence. He felt he needed to get it out in the open somehow -- like some sort of catharsis -- but the moment it passed Reek's lips he felt no relief.