Arrow Lake shine on

mahler made a sound low in his throat as he walked beside ruenna, but said nothing until she had finished. it was unpalatable that swiftcurrent still stood, and moreover, that constantine seemed to have followed in the teachings of his mate when it came to 'royal children.' remembering how he had seen kubo once in the sunspire, only to lose the boy to fear, the gargyole wondered if chusi had yet departed the place. "it is unlikely that constantine vill put an end to that. if it is ego or something else, i do not know."
healing, once more. ruenna had lost a pack, and gained another. but to be forced into moving twice — mahler did not know how the small she-wolf had kept from fraying beneath the weight of it. "i came to swiftcurrent after my pack along the coastline disbanded. grimnismal," and to say it aloud prickled mahler with some unexplainable emotion. "something happened between the two of them, she and constantine, and the creek suffered for it. i could respect neither of them after that, and took my leave."
perhaps it was the thought of wylla that sparked such revolution in his chest, how the last time he had seen her, she had gazed at him in such a way. and then she had disappeared with tiercel, and never returned. swallowing quietly, the shadowpriest turned his own lavender eyes upon ruenna. 
"but for all of that, you are here vith us now, and i am glad. may diaspora continue to be a home to you." another rare smile curved mahler's lips; they had gained a rare and trustworthy wolf in the tessarius.