His mothers were away. Myrasyn walked him in Lumi's place, while Emily walked him for Miri and Katalin both, his primordial mother and his human one.
Emily wore a dress instead of a uniform and held her Master's arm as if it might be taken from her.
"Master... the mistresses should be... I am only the... forgive me, I told myself I would not-"
"You've had my house since the beginning," Quinlan said, and put his hand over hers on his arm. "I'd be honored."
"I'll tell her everything when she returns," Myrasyn said on his other arm, so quietly that only he heard it, and held on harder.
They walked him. Down the aisle between two lines of weeping elves, past the heads of the Consortium and the beaming Mediator, past Kaede Fujimori, past four beastkin lords and a queen of fourteen, to the foot of the altar where the Dawn Breaker waited.
