"Mama!"
The voice was high and bright, like a small child discovering a new word.
Nothing ancient about it, nothing layered or wrong or threatening.
Just... cute.
Void's newly formed mouth moved again, testing the shape of the sound. "Mama! Mama!"
I stared at the small black furrball that had just grown crystalline teeth and called me Mama in the most adorable voice I'd ever heard.
"Did it just..." Mara started.
"Call Riven Mama," Henrik finished, sounding slightly stunned. "Yes."
Void bounced in midair, clearly delighted with this new development, and the mouth curved into what might have been a smile. "Mama!"
Through the binding, I felt Azryth's shock mixing with reluctant amusement.
"Well," he said finally. "That's... unexpected."
