Stone Circle visitation rights

Nikai nodded but didn't elaborate whether or not Valette's description of his mother was like what he imagined her as. He instead waited to listen to the story she told of his mother's death. It was weird to listen to it in this way, like someone listening to a story that wasn't linked to them at all, and at the same time with the anticipation that the story was very real and posed a very real threat to them, too.

The threat was long gone but he felt grateful that Valette and Steady had protected him and Keoni from it when it was still so very real. And that they had taken the pair of them in, of course. "I wonder who did it," Nikai said, his words not particularly malicious or vengeful; it was long gone and he didn't know the situation. He would've loved to have known his biological mother better, but things were as they were now and he was grateful for what he had. There was only curiosity left for the ending of the story he had been told, now. "I guess we'll never find out." And that was that.

Nikai's attention was stolen by one of the little pups wriggling around in the den; he could only see a glimpse of it from the corner of his eyes and chuffed shortly to bring it to Valette's attention in case she wanted to put it back further to the back of the den.