Swiftcurrent Creek [m] Cause you channel all your pain

Arric had been caught off guard, and he had been blunter than perhaps he had meant, but well what were you to do. He still missed his father, a lot and sometimes his mother. The grief didn't end, but it did get manageable at least. 

Oh man, his heart grew tight at her admission. He reached for her, to pull her tightly when she had been a little girl. IF she would let him. Lay his head across her shoulders and squeeze.

You know what Maemae you would have been an awesome daughter for me, but i'm glad Akavir is your dad. Because then even if you aren't mine. I still get to love you just like you are. And I do. I love you more than the moon and the stars you understand.

He didn't want to throw Akavir under the bus, but he wanted the girl to know he loved her too. Despite she wasn't his. She was hi sbest friends and in essence that sort of made her his, at least his neice at the very least.