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

Among the sorrow, the anger, came confusion. How could he make such promises, when his second seemed so determined to be Diaspora's only mother? Mahler had said so himself: Takiyok would not appreciate this arrangement.

She was silent for a moment, uncertain, afraid to speak further should the General swiftly change his mind. To hold her tongue was a simpler choice here, she realised, though Nyx couldn't help but wonder when - if - he would share their plan with their Kapitän. 

"I don't wish to disrespect Takiyok," came her hushed guilt, which emerged from between her muddied emotions with ease. "I really don't. I just... I know it's wrong to be selfish..." But she's trying to take my choice from me.

And I won't let her.