Ocean's Breath Plateau There's Peace in the searching sometimes

"Well then I'll be sure to recover quickly." She laughed a smile upon her lips once more. Though they joked she trusted Rodyn to be honest, and did not worry that there was resentment hidden in his words over her injury.

A gentle shake of her head, she would always be there and if she could she would halve any burdens of his though she knew that much of what he faced was particular to him. "I'm sorry, I know this isn't the family you imagined having, so maybe in that way fatherhood does not feel...as intended." Of course she knew Rodyn had always thought of being a father to pups that he and Samani raised together.

"What do you feel causes you to ask this?" Her voice was soft around the edges of the sentences, rolling over the consonants. A whisper to unfurl flowers in the spring rather than a prying loose of the soil. His children were healthy and they were loved, in her mind he had not failed in the slightest, but she knew that though they had known each other for some time she could not know all the twists and turns of his heart nor his mind.