Moonspear [m] tabula rasa

His gesture was welcomed, though she yearned for more. Sialuk didn't voice it, but there was a part of her that wanted to give herself over to more simple pleasures to forget her worries—if only for a time. Killdeer would stay in village Moonspear, though he began to pull away from her, extending an apology, as if he was responsible for any of it.

Sialuk had been starved of physical, romantic attention for months now, since the children had been born. Even Elentari seemed distant in that regard. She wrapped a foreleg around his own, hoping to pull him back toward her.

I wish the dark cloud to go away, she said, her voice more desperate than she wished it to be. So much in her life had been sorrow. There had been a time of peace, a time of light and love, but that felt brief compared to all the tragedy she had felt. Couldn't Killdeer be a new era?