Mudminnow River If I ever were to lose you, I'd surely lose myself.

his tongue, sent back to him. a trembling sob. how like him she looked! how like her mother! how she had grown and become nearly an adult, out of his eyeshot. he considered phaedra, thade, astraeus — how many bonds left to mend, and he determined to sew them all.
"you vill come to rivenvood?" he asked hopefully, aware he could not order her to the bypass. wylla recovered there, but mahler now had a chance at regeneration, and he would take it.
time, he knew now, was not infinite.
"sagtannet has changed. i am — ve are," a trailing away. "i vant you to come home."
mahler meant for ciri to feel in such a way as he had not been able to do before.