Swiftcurrent Creek pearls

To hear such a story shrouding his grandfather’s memory gave Akavir pause as he studied Lestan. What did he know of the man? He knew only what his father had told him—Lasher having died prior to his conception.

“My father spoke often of his kindness and protectiveness for his pack and family. He had a wife in Blue Willow, my grandmother. Apparently, there were none kinder than her. She passed before him, and my father found out only after Lasher’s death also that he had bedded another woman—allegedly, in his words—and bore more children that he had never gotten to meet.”

He paused, considering. “He encouraged my aunts—my father’s younger siblings—to pursue the magicks he felt had been born to them. Constantine had spoke how they seemed whimsical and loving in many ways—Deirdre, particularly, was one he had been fond of. She died in the fire by the sea.”