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Eventually Speedy agreed and Charon nodded. He offered her one last nuzzle to the neck. I'm going to miss this, he admitted with a smile that was almost soft etched across his scarred features. Even though trouble likely awaited them back home, Charon was glad he'd gotten closer to Speedy and he wondered what more life might bring them in the future. He just hoped he could make it all right again, and mostly, hoped the could make his daughter his subordinate again and his mate his partner again, as it should be. He hoped they'd see.

So he set off, breaking away from Speedy with a pained grimace and soon thereafter feeling the weight of the world upon his shoulders. He would make sure there wasn't much of her scent left -- but enough not to be suspicious -- by the time he returned home to the mountain.