Ocean's Breath Plateau Lifetimes are catching up with me.

She searched his gaze. He wasn't upset with her. She had followed his son. Alaric had told him it was his son who had ran. He could not blame Towhee at all.

He sighed and settled beside her. Yellow eyes on some distant thing. He haltingly began to explain trying to use some of the language clumsily she and Phox had taught him.

Roly doesn't want to be here. He wants to be with Sialuk who is the only mom he knows. A sons love for his mother, well I'm sure you know. He didn't handle it well when we came and frankly he hasn't adjusted either. I may have to let him stay there.

The last part his words caught and his throat convulsed. For the painful reality.