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he found it endearing, how many languages dragomir spoke. it was a credit to aurewen; her education was impressive, and she had passed such to her little darlings. a pang struck mahler as he thought of their father; did verx consider the plight of the children he had abandoned? or had he gone on to conquer and sow new fields?
it was unfair of him to think such things, mahler knew, but it was a greater unfairness that the man had left behind his family. the beaming child at his paws, for instance; vercingetorix should be here, praising the boy, teaching him new words. but he was not, and that left mahler to fill the role, however briefly. 
"caterpillar. very good. let us go show your mother," the gargoyle agreed. "vhere did you find the caterpillar?" he asked, curious. some species could be used medicinally, and he wondered if there were more where dragomir had been.