Noctisardor Bypass sonnenschein

ciri settled into him, and he was brought to recollections of she and elke, frisking about the mountain. their long explorations, the time he had spent in sagtannet with them alone. 
roaming between two dens that year, and cherishing each moment of exhaustion. 
he regretted that they had not grown up together, and did not call one another sibling.
mahler lay his head gently atop her own, cuddling ciri closer as the summer-night and its sounds filled the waking minutes.