"I don' know if it was good. He is more independent now, he needs me for less." Gawain had been Percy's for a long time, until his sire finally beat whatever devotion he had out of him. That was the difference between Mauri and Percy...
Percy needed someone else in order to feel...anything.
"Live in the moment," he agreed more softly, a sullen note in his words as he looked at Mauri. "I am what I am," he remarked in his defense, before closing his eyes and leaning into Mauri. He'd missed the vampire, even if saying as much was hard, if not impossible.