like the dawn, you broke the dark - any/fam

[Kavi]

Do you believe you're missin' out?
That everything good is happening somewhere else?

Though the trek up the mountainside is labourous, I make it anyway: trailing yards behind my daughter and her wife, eager to meet the my grandchildren and to know their precious faces. Precious, as Kagerus's was; as Bergamot's was.

I have always had a soft spot for children.

I find myself in the doorway of their grotto just as the third child is arriving; and as his mother's look between themselves with a worry in their eyes as to just what they will do to care for all three at once during these first critical minutes, I step inside, tears adorning my high cheekbones.

I go to the middle child, the one with calm eyes and a beaming smile that leaves my stomach flipped. He is the same colour, the same disposition, the same: he is Rhaego reborn, my father in a new life's body. Chuckling airily in the fragile bones of my chest, I lean down, beginning to groom his wet, shaking hide.

"They are so beautiful," I murmur, glancing first to Solace, and then for a more prolonged period, to Kagerus. "Thank you, for honouring my father's memory."

I love you, my grandchildren; I love you so.

KAVI

Kagerou x Rhaego