Nova Peak Until I found a bruise on the other side

mahler nodded. the glacier had appeared to never leave her heart. but he held such a remark back, believing it would only pain takiyok, a reminder of what she had surrendered for diaspora and then later sagtannet. her next words swept his muzzle toward the winterwhite. an ugly expression crossed his craggy face.
"do you remember vhen i told u i vould be selfish, that it vas my right to be selfish?" of course she recalled it; such had hung between them like the cracked belly of a tarnished bell. "vell. three daughters and a son. he does not know the tongue of my land. my eldest daughter avoids me. and my two youngest, taken by their mother to moonspear."
staring now, toward some distant unseen fixed point. "and vylla, dragged through all of it. so you see, i have reaped vhat i meant to sow."