Noctisardor Bypass raserei

words erupted.
wylla's righteous fury erupted as rightfully as it ever should have been. mahler listened to her cold voice cut laurel from their ranks and place her aside. he began to see the impossibility of the situation, that the fatalistic flaw within himself was that he could not fix everything. he could not protect rivenwood without choosing their pack as a whole over her. he could not bring back laurel's children without exposing himself to the final battle he might ever have. he stared at the wounds upon her as she spoke furiously, exhorting them to work as one. he could not ask duskfire to help; they had already given much after the loss of prey suffered in the taiga.
mahler knew that wylla would not be moved. his amethyst gaze moved to her; he thought with a sudden, lurching start of the children that might yet be growing within his wife's stalwart small body.
laurel's voice, her accusations; they would incense wylla, and mahler moved to flank her with the intention of assuaging any conflict. he could not bear there be more this hour.
agony rushed the graf.
sequoia once more offering herself as emissary; and mahler at last spoke:
"no."
"take druid and vitch. and go far."
his eyes were strained when he set them toward laurel. "rivenvood fought. i vas vounded. you vere vounded. druid — no more."
the yawning realization of what he was setting into motion horrified and sickened mahler. "i do not vant to fight. i am done fighting. ve fought. ve lost. duskfire may not be capable of helping. that leaves us alone, laurel."
he closed his eyes; breath rose in a plume from his nostrils; voice hoarsened. "another conflict is more blood shed from rivenvood."
he was breaking, breaking; panicking; he should stand with laurel now, he should stay to his intentions of descending to the valley and to his final war;
but mahler;
"i am sorry. but i have nothing left."
she called him friend. he did not deserve the title.
it did not matter what next was said; mahler turned and he would not be persuaded back.