Nova Peak Until I found a bruise on the other side

he wanted to tell takiyok it would be all right, that he did not need pity. that it was not "my mistake vas being full of vhat i vanted," the shadowpriest found himself saying. "i am sorry too. for hurting those in my life who had thought better of me." like you. would their every meet be marked by such pain? 
mahler cleared his throat, felt the wind upon his ruff, turned back to glance into the deep pyre of the winterwhite's gaze before her gesture was returned, breath clattering in his throat for a moment at their contact.
and then mahler had come back to himself, offered a thin smile. "vomen are stubborn vhen they know they must be." it had been so for each woman in his life; wylla was no exception. indeed, she had far exceeded his already surprised expectation's of the feminine condition.