Nova Peak vom kopf entfernen

what taikon thought was weakness would be the natural end of continued defiance.
mahler would have enjoyed breaking the malcontent's jaw, a fitting scapegoat for all that had happened.
it was not a true surprise that fractured him when takiyok showed her teeth and forced her strong body between them; only a flicker of something acceptant and resolute in the eyes of the man with whom she had once led.
"choose quickly, takiyok," mahler ground in a low and dangerous slip of velvet upon wet stone. "you escort the trespasser from the borders, and make your decision there vether or not you vill be returning." 
an ultimatum. if he must tear down the stones of sagtannet to make way for a new imagining of a icier life, then he would, and if the winterwhite saw herself as one such, they were not beholden to one another.