Broken Antler Fen pleisosaur

Teya had valid questions. Valid points to be made. Things that Ibis had been thinking about for ages now but keeping private; being overtired had opened things up. Opened her up to discussion - perhaps with the wrong person, as it stands.

He is not the father to any of them. Ibis had tried to tell him the same before, but could not know for sure if she had been clear, she had been manic and full of shame at the time.

He left me, Teya. It was to find and rescue our daughter - my daughter - and I could not wait for him. I do not deserve someone like him. Her shoulders quake slightly in the light.

She was thankful these children were so young that the words meant nothing to them.

I know I should ask for help. I have help... at least for now, but soon Eljay would be busy, and she did not hold enough trust in the strangers within Brecheliant to ask for more. And I have you.

Moonlight; an ache in her secret heart.

Soon they will be big enough not to need me. Then, I don't know what I'll do.