Hitotsu had regrets. Namely, he regretted his firstborn son. Not for his hybrid blood interestingly, but when he had awoken him. He had no plans initially to have more children, but then he was approached by another Kumiho who from her demeanor was clearly of a servant caste. She came to him with the proposition of imbuing a stone or two and in exchange she would help him look after his sister and son.Normally he would have rejected her for bloodline alone, but he was no longer at home and bloodline meant increasingly less to him ever since taking in his sister and remembering the neglect she had suffered. This woman was kind to his sister and his son, she didn't look at them with pity or contempt. He could benefit her by giving her a child of a good bloodline, and he got a babysitter and someone who made quiet company. It seemed like a good arrangement to him.
