Arrow Lake Kick my shoes off and run

gonna fade this out so we can have a new one ?

how intuitive she was. for a long moment, mahler did not move, nor did he respond; save for a single blink to announce his shock at her ferreting. his thoughts passed to ruenna, and then ironically to takiyok herself, before traveling to the wistful place where he kept locked his memories of marigold. 
”it is not something for vich i have planned,” mahler murmured at length. a non-answer to be sure, but it was the only one he felt he could give at this time.
settling the conversation next upon his most recent patrol and the tracks he had found at the border, the gargoyle thus whiled away some time before departing the winterwhite and her children for the pensive silence of the empty lake.