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ooh congrats on the promotion! :D

mahler felt the assured sting of her words; not her words, but how he must answer, how it would gall him and tangle him to answer. and how in that he saw admittedly his own fault and his own shortcoming. "this year i vill only be mentor to rivenvood's new children" he said directly, though his tone was melancholy. "i treated the privilege of fatherhood badly in years past."
more to say hovering on his tongue, but he continued along their same line. "vill spring bring motherhood for you, iana?" though the lilac of his gaze saw her moroseness, and too late he wondered if he had misspoken.