Sleepy Fox Hollow the universe offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp

"kallik." he did know this man. the gargoyle was light at emmerich's side, regarding both the soldier and the boy who had come to live in paleo.
siku's distress was palpable, and his father's heart went out to each of them for this estrangement. 
"i do not think further discussion vill be vorthvhile," mahler said at last, crisply so, an indication that kallik should retreat for now. and it was in his eyes as well, not wariness but a firm request.