Ras accepted the verbal lashing but when she poked him he growled back and stood up straight to look down at her. "I never wanted to be a father! I tried to be a father before and my newborn daughter ended up in the bottom of a fucking river!  Now that daughter is living the stables, fucking animals, and giving births to litters thanks to The'kal being a piece of shit! So you'll have to foegive me for struggling to cope with Relene's death. I'm doing the best I can here."<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>