Noctisardor Bypass laksen

he will! because he'll at least try! you wouldn't even try once, anselm!
heda closed aching jaws over words barbed to cut more holes in his icy hide. this needed to be done, be through. be over. his laughter raked at her ears, and then she felt anselm move and pull away.
and she did not call him back; she sat trembling and still and staring until he truly was gone and the sound of his footfalls were no longer discernable.
and then she wept, she wept. for caracal, for all their many children, for glaukos, for druid, for the children her sister had left behind, for john, for anselm. for herself.
for anselm. for herself. for the unavoidable rending that had been torn in the fabric of her soul, and one now she knew would not mend.
she wept, and then she slept.