Arrow Lake Should I stay or should I go

perhaps it was for the best; mahler was unsure how he might look upon his kill-brother's grave again without the sting of tears to hurt his eyes, and he did not want it again. not again, not before kazimir. she needed his strength now, as did all of diaspora.
and so mahler nodded, returning her brush with a nudge of his own. "i vill be at the lake, if you vant company after," the gargoyle muttered, standing aside so that kazimir might fully return home, and in the next moments look upon the one who had fallen in her absence.