Sawtooth Spire wolkenbruch

a long sigh purled from the man despite his best efforts to bite it back. "takiyok and i had a falling out over my decision for this season," he said simply. nyx would know what he meant. "but she has not been happy here since stigmata died." it was his true belief that the winterwhite had suffered the final blow with his dissent, yet her love for the pack foundered with the death of their beloved ironstar.
mahler trudged quietly beside nyx a long moment, musing bitterly that his relationship with takiyok had ended as one of his greatest failures. he did not know if stag would remain; he hated the idea of the boy torn between the love of his northern mother, and the few fatherly attributes mahler could offer.
pensive; he turned into the cold wind and was silent a long time.
"vould you like sons or daughters, nyx?" anything to drive out the memory of takiyok's flashing teeth, to warm him again to fatherhood.