Rejected, Then Wanted by My Triplet Alphas
The tune felt older than my own conscious memory of it, as though it had been passed down through some deeper channel than deliberate teaching, and I wondered, humming it softly against Wren's small ear, whether Selene had once sung this exact same melody to me in a nursery I could no longer picture clearly.
Wren's small face scrunched, then relaxed, and slowly, for the first time since her birth, her eyes opened fully.
I caught my breath entirely.
Grey. A clear, distinctive grey that I recognized instantly, having spent nine years studying that exact color across three identical faces in a household I had once served without complaint. Kane grey, unmistakable, the particular shade that mark