Duskfire Glacier hebamme

mahler dipped his head to lane, but did not seek to keep her. she was busy with her brood. 
pushing his gifts into the relative protectiveness of a bush, to be fetched later, the graf turned. he would patrol where he had said, and in the interim, he hoped that both iana and worripa would return, preferably with a restored praimfaya.
how could he know it was not meant to be?