Broken Antler Fen It's the awful, lonely secret of the dead-boy's heart.

the more reyes spoke, the greater teya's scowl became. what sort of terms were those? go back in punishment? for what reason? tail switched, and she turned more fully to face him. to dismiss a husband for a time was one thing; to withhold his children was another.
and because she did not know the truth entire of what had happened, teya took only the side of the one she knew, and it was reyes. 
controlling her features once more, the little raven glanced away before her attention returned to him, and with it her voice. had he not sought better terms than omega? and ruenna! ruenna had said this! perhaps she had greatly misjudged the kindness of the mediating woman at the borders.
but she had spent too long being hotheaded, and so she curbed her tongue on that front. ruenna, after all, was only one leader. and teya had never truly spoken to towhee, not since —
"how long you allow her humiliate you, reyes?" was what came out, a vine laden with thorns and etched in her own bitterness.