Sleepy Fox Hollow sehnsucht

takiyok, like himself, had learned well a strong manner was the only way to surmount many things that arose. as leadership, it was to they that wolves looked for guidance; the pair could ill-afford to appear weak.
it was telling, then, of at least some trust, that takiyok and mahler had been able to open toward one another, to share the quiet fears, to allay stress among themselves.
and it was with a twinge that he had veiled himself to her again, knowing that he must not be moved from what he had decided, no matter her reaction.
"takiyok," her name a sound that he softened in the saying, unable to keep himself so cold, "you vill not be able to keep every voman in diaspora from their season, and i do not have the energy to fight off every stray man that vill come to seek them out."
"therefore i have decided that it vould be best for me to be the only father they choose for their vhelps. i vill not be abandoning my post on a lark."
heart thudded; eyes glistened with a singular message only takiyok might decipher:
i am not stigmata.