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

why was she not speaking of this with takiyok? nyx seemed to demand that mahler know the enigmatic inner machinations of his second, and he simply did not.
aware he was merely frustrated with himself, for a situation he alone had created, the gargoyle swept it all down and stepped to brush lips against the fairy-light hue of nyx' ruff.
"you have earned it. but this is our vay. any children she bears must be defended against injury and illness and threat. any others born are a danger to the life of her brood." there was of course the fact that takiyok had long loved him, but the guilt of it was a deep ache he would rather not unearth for present.