Finally taking flight

Once she pointed out that she looked like her mother Ulric could better understand why she was concerned. "Ah," he said softly with a nod. He still couldn't picture Tamsyn being anything but hospitable at the very least to their newest member, but Eska couldn't know that. She really did carry a strong resemblance to Resin - something he had immediately noticed when he first met her. When she mentioned that she might be thinking into it too much he smiled and gently nudged her shoulder with his. "Even if you are, all of your concerns are valid. Never feel like they aren't." He paused for a second before adding, "You should really meet Tamsyn. She's a wonderful woman. Obviously devastated by everything that happened, but... I think she'd be thrilled to meet you."

With that he let the topic drop, giving her another smile as he led her out of the infirmary, leading her down a different hallway and pausing by a set of stairs that led down deeper into the castle. "This is the way to the cellars. It's nice and cool down there so that's where we keep any meats from our hunts so they're easily accessible. That's also where those bottles of wine are if you're ever wanting for some." He chuckled softly at the memory from the night before and kept going, leading her in a loop around the castle, pointing out different wings where some wolves lived like the wing the Carpathius family had claimed, where some empty rooms she could claim for herself were, and the corridor where his room was. "All of my children have rooms through here as well," he mentioned and then suddenly realized she probably didn't know about his pups.

"I have fi-" He stopped himself, his ears flicking back against his head and silver gaze glancing away. "Four. I have four children... The fifth went missing a few seasons ago. Along with my fiancée." At this point he had come to accept that they were truly gone. Whether they were dead or just never returning he would never know, but when he glanced at the empty room at the end of the hall that had been saved for Everlyse, knowing that her first birthday present that would most likely never be used was tucked away in his room, it still hurt. Azariah no longer crossed his thoughts very often, but his little brindled girl did. He sighed and pulled a smile back onto his lips before he looked at her again. "I've accepted my fiancée being gone, but something about thinking of my daughter still gets to me."

Ulric Adravendi