Noctisardor Bypass kids are sad, the sky is blue, there are monsters in the spare bedroom

"he left a while ago. let us know he'd be back. needed to get away, i imagine." who could blame him after all this?
she had tried not to think about glaukos at all, but it was so hard. seeing him forced heda to realize how much of his markings, his eyes, his bearing were among the four kids he'd sired for druid. kikimora almost especially, or perhaps it was because the girl was often among ezra and gideon.
finishing up with a cache where she had placed a new squirrel, heda stretched and tried again, not to think of the giant man or wonder if he'd be back.