Sleepy Fox Hollow Lilac and gooseberries.

he had nothing; she would find him staring off unseeing toward where diaspora had been, where the graves of kazimir and blodreina and his own brother lay crushed beneath felled rock, hateful despair rising to choke him. her appearance shook the general from his reverie; he settled his focus upon nyx instead.
"how are you?" the gargoyle asked, pensively; he hoped she would not ask after him, for he had aught to tell. "i sent our newest scout out, upon a mission beyond the far mountains. if she returns, ve might have a new home."