What we wish for our children is that they have a better life than we did, yes?

[ It is all he wants for Lucci. Something safer, something kinder. It is not so easily done in this world, let alone as an elf. But as he reaches out to smooth back some of his curls those eyes catch his and he cannot help but smile.

Perhaps there is hope. ]

He shall know no fear as I did when I was a child in the Crows.