Noctisardor Bypass bedauert

"astraeus." mahler did not consider praimfaya for that; she had been ousted as exile before they had come to nova peak. "he has grown into a retiring young man." the gargoyle did not believe that the presence of wylla would inspire astraeus to sudden heights — he did not yet know that the boy had followed and wounded taikon for his insubordination.
noting that she had not drawn away from him, a low exhale through his nostrils. she would find him hopelessy doe-eyed for a moment, feeling suddenly boyish as if he were a young man again, with a new face to adore.
he had been deprived of looking at her — no, he had deprived himself of looking at her, mahler corrected; slowly he righted the slight against her with a shy exploration of her features, before he remembered again. "and the boy born to star, calcifer." but star was not here, not any longer, and he trusted wylla would hear the implication.