Hushed Willows and flowers never bend with the rainfall

he is thinking today seems a good day to come visit lily and khali's brood, already, when lily's call comes and cinches it. for a second there is a flare of anxiety, for he does not have many good associations with young mothers calling for attention, but this is lily, her voice sounds excited, not angry or scared. ariel arrives, catching sight of khali as he approaches, and slips in beside puck, the only one gathered he really recognizes (besides sunny, but they'd not spoken much in some time). besides, sunny was busy presenting a gift -- cleverer than ariel, alas.

he offers lily and khali a shy smile hello, but allows himself to indulge in watching the children, who already seem so big. cam's, ahem, movement he'd missed, though it's aftermath he can still witness, and politely he declines to react. instead he quietly hopes that his children will get along with lily's; he cannot handle another set of feuding children.