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The woman before him questions his statement to which he nods once to confirm what he has said. A warning, or a heads up, but something that keeps Ukko on edge and protective of the woman he calls his mate. Hisaya doesn't need to know that their affection is limited and their relationship developed under strange terms. Perhaps there is something there neither of them have discovered but Ukko knows he won't leave the woman when she carries his children in her belly. His responsibility would not have wavered if she had not become pregnant but now that she is, and due any time, he has become doubly so.

"Thank you," he says then, just before her final question to which he begins his trek back the way he'd came. "This way," he tells her, finding an easy pace to bring her to his borders.

The trip is mostly quiet, occasionally exchanging a few words, but the eagerness to get back and see Asterr has settled. While Tavi isn't forgotten, his duty takes a quick precedent so he can reunite the dragoness with her family.

When the lair is in sight, he points it out to Hisaya and takes a few quicker steps forward to close the remaining distance. The border has become familiar to him, where he has begun to see the lair as his home and feeling the Maplewood and peak shed from his mind. Places he no longer feels comfortable using the terms home, even when he slips up, but he knows in due time all that will disappear.

Ukko turns to the Draconid as they cross the borders, leaving her nearby so that he may search for his mate. Finding her first gives him a chance to line up the information Hisaya had given him with what @Asterr knows instead of putting the mother-to-be into danger.