The Cuckoo Egg

~Kaelar~

It was my mother who told me the story of how she had found her mate. It was one of those days where, instead of locking herself away in her study, Vespera had scooped me up and carried me outside to show me a fallen bird’s nest that she had found.

It was days like that I looked forward to the most, the days when my mother felt like a real mother, like she cared about me and wanted to inc