Sleepy Fox Hollow Like a dream I can reach but not quite hold.

he could not see the forest for the trees, he supposed — perhaps he would have eventually realized his mistake. it was immaterial now; mahler nodded gentle assent.
"planning is all i know," the musiker revealed quietly.
a shifting forward of his own auds; mahler considered the insidious nature of their planning. it had the potential to make takiyok feel as if she had been undermined, and how could the general seek to arrest her wrath?
"you vould not mind sharing me as father?" mahler ventured carefully. it was one thing to speak when the season had not come; it was quite another to be under the riotous passion of the heatwave.