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

teya wanted to scream in frustration. 
but she did not, only darted her coolwater gaze aside. "she want to know you will come back, no matter what obstacle she make." it was a challenge. and if reyes failed, or did not return to his children, towhee might feel justified to lock him out of the caldera.
a sigh, fluting through her saddened mouth. "if you do not want to return as omega, tell them you stay here, in brecheliant. and that brecheliant offer part of fen as meeting-place. for you and your children."
if she could not have him, teya was determined to help, and to keep reyes at close as hand as she could manage.