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

having no former experience with fathering children that would then live beneath his rule, mahler would have no answers for nyx had she asked. one truth remained above all: the choice to leave diaspora must be theirs alone. he had seen enough of pups being dragged from their birthplace.
"takiyok will not like it," mahler murmured truthfully. that was what set he and his late kill-brother apart, he fervently believed — honesty. it was the best way, despite how it might hurt.
he wished nyx to have all the information she might need to make her own decisions; it was twofold selfish, for if she knew, how could she return to castigate him?
self-serving, yes, but mahler was quite weary of being hounded and blamed, no matter how truthful the allegations.