Excellent. :> Btw, I suck and we should have a Zeke/Cypress thread after the war wraps up.
In some ways, he was disappointed that Cypress was the sum of his home. Crimson Dreams had produced a boy who lacked the savagery that kept his elder siblings alive. Ezekiel was more wilderness than he was man, and Talitha was far more dangerous than her hostile behavior let on. Yet this was why he had been pleased by their ruling. Halo was mad, unpredictable. She had been like that for far too long, Gabriel had come to realize, and in many ways he regretted giving her his right hand. It had fueled an ego that needed discipline.
He heard the boy’s approach long before his voice came, and did not start at the sound. A dark head turned to face this odd reflection of himself, one that was more his mother than anything else. At least Anu had gotten what she desired—she had sons. She was immortal. “Cypress,” he greeted, though his body did not show any signs of welcome. It rarely did. “Did you find Inferni what you expected?” Gabriel asked, his tone even, less like a father and more like a teacher. He had known what his son would find here. The fact that even Ezekiel had avoided the boy proved this.
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