Fox's Glade [m] glued back together again

@Yakone let me know if you want anything changed! Marking as mature, just because it's "the morning after" lol

In the last rays of sunlight, Merrit realized he had never thought about what his lover would be like.

He had seen beauty in many women. Strength, intelligence, gentleness, ferocity. And he had always felt the need to protect them, even though every woman in his life had been more than capable of protecting themselves. But never had he considered a family for himself, a wife he might call his own.

They still lay there together beneath the swaying branches of Fox's Glade as the stars blinked into the early night sky, by that tree next to the stream that marked Kaito's grave. Wait till you do something wrong, it was as though Arlette's voice still whispered through the trickle of the stream, you will see mother's real face.

And he wondered if mother saw him now, what she would say of this.