North is in the West

It was the middle of the night, the kids where camping out elsewhere, which they occasionally did. Or perhaps the were finding thinks to kill the Warlord wasnt aure on the particulars, but he had no doubt they were causing mischief. He had slept on and off in the meanwhile, but his thoughts where swimming. It was well before sunrise when he leaned over, and puffed a breath of ear against Zee's horns. "Honey, you awake?" He asked softly in the darkness.

He had somethings he needed to talk over with her. Ahe was his touchstone and he relied on her to point him North. The Alpha of Abaven has surprised him with her forgiveness and her warning. He did not think it a weakness on her part, as he might have before Zee. Instead, he saw it as a sort of strength. A similar strength he had seen in Poem, when he had wished to possess her as a pupil.