MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ME AND MY LOVED ONES TO YOU AND YOURS!
(Oh, and just so you know, this all happens almost a year after the last chapter you read…)
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RETH
Reth lay in the furs, feigning sleep as Elia crept around the bedchamber, dressed quickly, then hurried out to find Elreth. If his hearing didn't deceive him, their daughter had shifted and jumped out of her bed in the small room they'd had dug for her off the tunnel to their bedchamber. She was currently galloping through the Great room, dragging something behind her. There was a crash as something was turned over and a yelp from Elia. Reth grinned into his pillow. He'd forgotten how active young lions could be. By all accounts his mother had almost lost her mind chasing him around when he was a toddler.
