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

[abysm]

The dream-manipulator has kept himself apart from them.

He has his reasons and his scant familial ties do little to keep him tethered there. If the leash that could him about was his father than he’d remain. But more often than not, Abysm slips the collar of his mother’s watch. 

Besides, she’s had her queenly lover’s twins to raise and now this - a trio of brats he’d probably come to adore in his own time just not right now as he hovers on the cusp of adulthood and feels more keenly the sting of his mother’s betrayal with the passing of each day. 

So he comes and goes long before the last days before their impending arrival. Spends more of his time in the land of dreams far beyond even the reach of Kagerus with whom he shares the dream manipulation trait. He tends to manipulate himself into places she doesn’t bother to reach. Places that hold replacements for her lack of love that has burrowed into him like a killing worm.

Oh sure, he knew that as her first-made (not born, no - not from those childless thighs) that he was loved but her love came in waves. Sometimes it crashed over him but less and less as her sea of love swallowed up others. Which at first he did not mind until less and less attention was paid to him and he spent more time walking in dreams. 

That’s where he met—

No, he dares not think of that name or face here. Not as he descends into the company of the two mothers and their triplets and some old stallion he’s never met. 

These three bear a portion of his blood and he noses each of their tender newborn heads for one minute at a time. Abysm then turns hollowed our eyes to the two mothers and emotionlessly congratulates them, “They’re beautiful, of course.” How could those children be anything but? Neither queen was horrendous to look at in their own right so it is natural their triplets would be some blend of beautiful at birth.

He then steps back, not quite sure why he remains and thinking of somewhere else he’d rather be (with someone else) as clouds of ponderous emotion move across his face.