Although the original plan had been to send Cahyr back on his own, given that the boy was grown and this dispute between parents was little more than a way for them to get back at each other, the chimera had changed his mind last minute and leapt into the surf with his son. There was no denying that he had a lot of room to improve as a father, and while it had been nice to see his golden son with his spotted daughters, he knew that he was leaving someone else out.

There was still Natyre, the daughter he had not yet met.

He knew of her existence through Cahyr, but he knew in his own heart that was not the same as meeting her himself. Whether or not Nyimara would allow such a meeting was up in the air still, but he had to try. As much as the silver witch might paint him as the villain - in some ways rightfully so - he did not want to be a deadbeat father anymore. Nyi might be strong enough to raise their children on her own, but that did not mean that he should be making her do so by being absent.

She would, of course still be furious with him. And he had steeled himself for the likelihood that when he did see her, she would already wear another man's stench. She could be a vindictive creature, and he had lost the challenge she had proposed. Coupling with the first man who crossed her path would be well within her wheelhouse, especially if it meant rubbing his nose in what he had lost. Or, at least, he had told himself he was ready for that.. But the first smidgen of Helios' scent that burned his nostrils had his jaw clenching and his ears pinning, annoyance racing through his chest.

He lifted his head and called for her then, settling himself atop a small sand dune near the beach, where the light lit him from behind and cast long shadows across everything he had left behind.

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