[open] a sky full of song

[Gale]

Gale this is going to break me clean in two -- this is going to bring me close to you Gale had once dreamed of passing the rule of Islandres to a child of his own, like the monarchs in the stories of the Old Times. It would be nice, to be raised along the black shores, to know no other place but Paradise. In those dreams, there was always a someone else, another parent ro the child, but more often than not the figure was a vague and shadowy thing. Gale had little interest in dreaming of a lover, and so there has never been a chance for a relationship at all, let alone a child. There are other wonderful things in life, he’d once told Tiercel. Like naps. Now, with responsibility of Islandres soon passing from his shoulders, he is thinking again about the child in his dreams. They’re both a little distracted, and if anything that makes Gale that much fonder of his sibling, for he is so often lost in thought or wonder in the world around him. Nashua’s confused ‘what’ is easily smoothed over, and a question follows. The full truth (that he is moving to Hyaline because Mazikeen is there and she has promised her help in assuring the simultaneous end of Gale’s life and end of the Curse that had killed Gale’s father and been the impetus behind Nashua’s existence) is not something he is ready to share on this bright summer morning. So instead he shares a smaller truth, a single word. “Mazikeen” With that word comes a smile though, one very like Nashua’s when he spoke of Noel. Gale had promised her he would return soon, and for a moment he is lost in thoughts of her. Before he is carried too far into imagining their reunion, he remembers Nashua and the present with a flush that would have been quite visible on a paler face. “She is...” A pause to find the perfect word, “phenomenal.” That isn’t quite enough, but it will do. @[Nashua]