Jade Fern Grove but you are dressed in night and snow

she yearned for it still. 
summer had come to them, but she had not pursued it. mahler did not need to remind her of her rights as a leader. she simply had not exercised them.
because — but even he could not go so far as to ask.
if iana had only wished children, as sequoia and praimfaya, she would have sought a sire outside the borders.
silence engulfing them.
mahler did not know what to say, and so only inched somewhat closer in weak semblance of support.