Arrow Lake trauern

ketzia brought the fate of her children to him again, and mahler felt irritation rise in his breast. but he stifled it, for it was natural that she should fear for them, especially in the wake of their father's death. yet, despite the fact that stigmata had sired them, he was not the only father in diaspora.
"i vould not allow harm to come to them," he murmured in a gravelled way. "stigmata vas their father, but i too can teach them things, if you vill let me." she was atremble with the verve of motherhood, lovely in it; he could no more stand against her than he could disagree that takiyok's coldness would take a large toll from the last children born in diaspora.
but she was not alone, not now. the ironstar might have departed this mortal coil, but mahler remained, and would make penance for his brother's sins in the years to come, gladly and in the fullness of his heart.