Though Taiyi had been a mother to Eltanin all his life, she couldn't help but feel immense motherly affection for Felis. She wanted to rake her fingers through his hair and see how they felt. She wanted to smell her son and understand what he smelled like. She knew that inside that burnt, smoky smell, he surely had another one hidden.
Felis gathered his courage to ask, but he had to ask all the important questions first, because he had only one night with her. "Why is it that Eltanin has your magic but I don't? He has inherited your magic, but I haven't. Or is it that it is locked inside of me?"
