Redtail Rise vaterschuld

@Astraeus had come and gone, neglected at the far reaches of sagtannet whilst mahler wallowed in the sorrow and resentment he could not shake. a morass clinging to his heavy limbs. phaedra scarce once more, and thade returned, thade come back to them. but beyond his great relief mahler could feel nothing else, only a sickening empty churn where his heart once dully thumped.
greying along his muzzle now as his numbers dwindled, and as surely the starboy grew desolate and bitter so far from the reach of his dubious love. mahler went out that rainwet afternoon to find the child he loved in word but had failed in deed, and not for the first time he he considered relocating himself permanently to the tangled forest beyond their gatekeep.
a rise, a spray of sparrows rising to pepperseed the air; he breathed out a plume of steam and called hoarsely for the celestial boy.