Noctisardor Bypass wünschen

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With age came a little bit of time away from the children. Laurel had taken up @Sequoia's offer of having the children watched so she could stretch her legs for a little bit. @Abel Redleaf was a handful still, though age did bring some solace to his cries. Laurel was a strict mother to him, often pushing him away in favour of @Indra III, whom she loved dearly. She felt guilty that she loved Indra so much more than Abel, but she told herself that he was making it so much harder, too. A break would do her well, she hoped, although she missed Indra already the moment that she stepped outside of the den.

Laurel quenched her thirst at the nearby stream first. It felt odd not to immediately rush back to the den after that, but she decided that she would go to the Lagoon. Relaxing and being without her children was so foreign now, but Laurel knew that she would grow used to it again, as she had the prior two times she had children.

On her way through the territories to the Lagoon, Laurel suddenly heard the most disturbing coughs she had ever heard. Honestly, Laurel had never put much stock in Mahler's worsening coughs. He had not seemed that bad whenever he was near her, and so she did not expect to see her leader leaning against a tree as she stepped through the bushes. ... Mahler? she called out, words as tentative as her approach; the man in front of her but a shadow of the man she thought to know.