Sawtooth Spire wolkenbruch

"no," he answered after nyx had asked. there was no reason to shift anything. mahler would not be called a liar. the auraed had earned the right to motherhood, and he had agreed to provide the means, before wylla returned.
he would not begin his life with the fierce she-wolf under pretense or lies or claims that he was less than honest.
moreover, beyond the cold logic, mahler truly cared for the woman alongside him, affections blurred and snarled as they had been with ketzia, with ruenna, but sharper than what he had known with the fairy. a hint of purity, he supposed.