Dragoncrest Cliffs Watched my welcome wear thin

reyes. she had not forgotten how distant their son had been, how forbidding. and how he had disappeared again.  a flighty boy, and one she missed badly. flicking her glance toward rosalyn, she asked silently what had been said, since reyes had remained unspoken. but by now, she knew her pirate would have shared such things.
wherever their now-grown children had ended up, their mother only held the fond hope of their return. it was for chacal she worried most, and regin — breath catching in her throat.
"i love dat t'ought," she sighed aloud, a chuckle masking her previous emotion. "odd to t'ink we will be grandmamans! i still feel so young,"[/i] she joked.