Nova Peak It's like an apple of temptation

He was thankful that she dropped it. They were friends because they could do this — dancing around one another's sore spots seemed to be their favourite past time. At least it was when they were together.
Takiyok had a delightful smile, however little it might have been. He could see very easily what he already knew: she loved her children more than perhaps anything else in the world. She had never spoken of her partner. Taikon assumed that the father of her sons was either dead or otherwise irrelevant; he wondered what had happened, but would never dare to ask.
Ego had returned. The answer of where their father was given without prompting, but that wasn't the important bit. A son. Back from the dead. That's great! I mean that's.. amazing actually, he said, looking back at her, tail flopping a few times on the cool stone beneath him. Taikon generally assumed that when people went missing, they were dead. He understood her assumption. He didn't realize she still had a missing child. Is he all right? If he had returned, he must have been "okay," but Taikon, being rather emotionally disturbed himself, knew that things could get complicated.