Hushed Willows By streams that never find the sea;

He was glad that he wasn't the only one of his family left here now.  Mali's tail wagged slightly when Brilliance appeared, but he wasn't gonna jump up and pounce her right off the bat.  But if she just wanted to hang out, he was cool with that.

He started speaking pretty quietly, a weird thing for the expert yeller, Hey... When you were out there, did you ever-- and that was where Okeanos interrupted. Mali's head whipped to face him, a very sour expression on his features.  Then back to his sister, his words now louder and matching his new mood, changing what he was going to say, --did you find a place where we can dump annoying dumb babies who don't get a clue?  He was so tired of them -- these kids were like fleas!  They were so coddled that they acted way younger than himself, at least in his eyes, and that made it even worse.