Blackfeather Woods your beauty makes them weak

it occurs to wintersbane that he is, perhaps, being too liberal with his questions. she explains that the melonii line built blackfeather woods ...and in a way he kind of understands but also he does not. change was not always a bad thing. kingdoms changed reigning families all the time, but he does not say this. he's already been too unmindful of his words. putting all their cards on a family that is clearly divided, that shows no intentions of reuniting seems foolish to him. it was like believing that him and mallaidh could ever reconcile. no matter how their meetings started out they always seemed to end in the same way: with tragedy. the most recent one being the worst thus far.

she is idealistic and it makes him adore her even more, despite the sadness that her concrete belief stirs in his breast. she is confident and he admires it, but he knows from his own experiences that a family divided might not ever be able to mend that broken bridge. sometimes, he speaks, breaking his silence, voice turning solemn as he offers her a preview into himself, dispelling a tiny fraction of the mystery he's kept. we cannot repair such bridges no matter how hard we try. sometimes those differences run too deep and when a divided family stands too far apart all they can do is hurt one another. maybe the melonii's would be different but ...their continued division would suggest that they're not.

perhaps the gods will favor the melonii reunion. he offers for placation. he does not mean to question, nor step upon her belief, only offer his perspective from his own experiences despite that she hadn't asked him for it.

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