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He looked at Azure as the boy smiled, and realised that the boy might have gotten the wrong opinion. Mort might be weaker than Sirius would like, and Azure with a strength he wanted to nurture, but he had still done something wrong and he needed to walk away with the lingering taste of that wrongness. He looked at the tiny creature he had just carefully cleaned and showed affection to, and hid his sigh.

Sirius rose fully to his feet, the motion casual and easy as he took a step forward. As he walked, he cuffed Azure, hard, turning to the boy as he moved past him. “You will remember that you will not willfully harm what is mine. Mortis, for all his faults, is mine and when you confront Resin, you will take it as a lesson to learn how to be strong, you will not be deceitful nor dishonest. There will be a day, Azure, a day quickly coming, when you will realise the responsibilities before you.” His heir needed certain attributes, and the smug pride after hurting his brother, was not something he was going to encourage, no matter how strong he wanted his boys to be.