Emberwood Walking and the sky keeps falling down

Generally, it was unlike Taikon to be vengeful or violent. The exception had been after Cella had died and once more when Aphrodite had told him what happened to her. It was always the women in his life who seemed to come upon hard times. Even Takiyok, whom Taikon knew could very well take care of herself, was a person he wished to protect from such harm. Thus far, he had failed to do so for others. He couldn't even stop Aphrodite's death. He considered himself the cause of Cella's.
Taki touched him, and he leaned into it. Yeah, one day, he answered softly, though he had little faith in such an outcome. He knew that Donovan had hurt many people. It seemed likely that someone with more hatred than Taikon and Takiyok would bring the axe down at last upon the cult leader. It didn't much matter to him. He knew Aphrodite would not have wanted to see him become a killer.
Sorry, I don't mean to be such a downer, he laughed awkwardly. What were we talking about? Right, kids, he rolled his shoulders a bit, shifting the tension away, returning to something positive. Do you want them? Like.. more of them? He grinned. He liked the idea of her having children, but after the way she'd spoken of her late husband, he felt nervous to watch her grow close in that way to any man.