Noctisardor Bypass fossopa

how could heda explain that these children were the price of an entry she had never faced without caracal? there was no comprehensible way for her to explain that she and anselm had come together in mutual loathing to create life she must again cover with glaukos.
no way to explain how sullied and stained she felt.
"dinah," she said softly, watching her girl, her proud, beautiful girl stalk back and forth in a furor of emotion, "i asked so much of you last year. and this year. but this year, the rest of it, we're not alone. we don't have to go anywhere. i don't need to rely on you so often."
she did not say who, her teeth locking around that, prepared to lie her way out of mentioning either the mountain wolf or the hollow man. "john has gone to find your brothers. when he comes back, when i can travel again, i will go too."
numbness, creeping; "we can't have our old one back, dinah. i won't pretend all of this is ideal. but you have me. you'll always have me. and you have ava, and now both of you have druid." and if dinah could never see these new babes as her siblings, at least she could cling to the blood and the sister she did recognize.
tears of shame softly fell in silence at the burning mention of caracal's name.