Sun Mote Copse say you'll stay with me tonight

Maia knew next to nothing about age and it's effect on that sort of thing.  Eventually instinct would reveal it all, and like Amekaze she would simply know.  Right now it sounded incredibly selfish to her, Charon's mate withholding and not even entertaining something that seemed to mean a huge deal to her friend.  She frowned as her views on it took a clearly one-sided slant.

That's super dumb.  If you want them, then she should too.  You had them before, right?  Maia didn't want any of her own right now personally, but that didn't stop her from the judgement in her tone.  He seemed so down about it, when he said they weren't aligned.  He deserved way better than to have her shoot down his hopes.  Sorry.  That has to be rough.   Mates were a forever thing, and now that got Maia thinking.  What if she chose someone and then they got super out of sync like that?  Had her parents ever? She didn't think so, but now she was going to worry about it, yes indeed.