Arrow Lake for the only true Queen is the Night Queen

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the wolves with whom stigmata had made a barter, mahler did not know what to make of them. he followed his kill-brother to greet the pale-flecked woman and her pair of forbidding male companions. it was the tenser of the two that drew the gargoyle's focus; he flanked stigmata opposite finch, a silent shadow with a breadth to match any of them.
the woman spoke, and the musiker listened, though he did not answer. her deference to stigmata was fleeting; mahler found this unappreciative, as the ironwolf had offered she and her own a home. yet he said nothing, preferring silence than to add his own voice among the two that sounded now.