Sawtooth Spire unordentlich

stag's voice, beginning to grow more masculine, cut through the air toward mahler. takiyok answered, however; their desperate touches piqued the gargoyle with a horrid realization. she was ill, and he did not know how to stave off the sickness. only her symptoms could be mended, and even then he did not know for how long. time was the arbiter of the winterwhite's fate. however, she was insistent that she would recover, and mahler conceded such to her. only takiyok would know.
"i found her in the hollow, vhere ve vent after the quaking earth," he said softly to the boy, seeking stag's worried stare. but that was all mahler could add; he did not understand the crush of emotion coming to thrum in his heart.