Redtail Rise vaterschuld

no wait at all! <3

he shook his head, but did not look away from astraeus. a muscle jumped in his cheek. the boy was right to question him, but when had questioning turned to such bitterness? who had changed the starwolf, and why? mahler knew all the answers to such; he knew that he was to blame, but searched for hope in the new honesty between them.
it was after all, the sum of what he had to hold for himself.
"ich war kein vater anwesend. das heißt nicht, dass ich akzeptiere, dass es immer so sein muss." to say it aloud struck anguish into his heart; to say it aloud relieved in some tiny way a burden from the backburner of his heart. mahler wanted to repeat it to phaedra; finally, the words he had never meant to lose or leave unformed.