nathaniel did not have to wait very long for her to arrive. she arrived, pale coat and lovely eyes, and she was as he recalled from his memory. save, that was, for the hard look of her eyes. a dagger of guilt stabbed his chest and he grimaced, ears flattened. ”Nathaniel. It’s been a while.” another stab of guilt and he shifted uncomfortably. to an outsider, the view would have been humorous. a mammoth of a male, looking like a dog beaten into submission, by a woman who was petite compared to him. her words had an edge, an edge he understood. he was in the wrong here, and he had to admit it. fire eyes trailed away from yellow and pink guiltily, trailing towards her side, where they alit upon another female, this one just a child.

his head tilted to the side very slightly as he observed how closely the pup resembled anemone and then, with a moment of realization, he recognized that she was younger than what his children would be and a small smile crept on his lips - the realization that she had moved on seemed to brighten the entire situation, if only slightly. his attention returned to anemone then, and he shifted a step back.”yes, anemone. it really has.” he was at a loss for words then, unsure of what to say. what could he say? to make up for two years of absence?

”i met another girl, namaah, the same winter i met you. and she bore me two sons - whom she promptly left in glorall with me. since then, i was there to watch them grow, but it was hard, very hard, to raise them on my own. and now that they have disappeared, you and our -” he paused and shook his head slowly. ”your children, have been on my mind. i hadn’t the slightest idea of what you would have to go through, but i do now and i want to offer you my most profound apologies.” he fell silent again, debating on whether or not to ask for something so monumental of her. ”if you’d allow me to, i would very much like it if i could meet them, at least once.”