Sleepy Fox Hollow Lilac and gooseberries.

a large sigh raced through mahler, expelled itself into nyx' silken ruff as he lay his muzzle there and felt the pain of her truthful words.
for him it would always be the regret around his children, though mahler did not suspect they could have lived even with his intervention.
it was then the agony of being a coward with which he must exist. lips tensed; he shut his eyes tightly and leant into the warm frame of the woman nyx.