Lena
“Are you implying someone took her?” Her eyes rounded and widened again – even after surviving war and bloodshed and ruin, witnessing her sister die, watching the world fall apart from tower to tower, she found it difficult to fathom someone would spirit the Heart away. “I wonder if there would be a way to track her. Find her.” Or if the gods could know – capable of discovering, with their infinite sagacity and omniscience.
She didn’t understand his desperation though, not when her whole being has been so firmly committed to the world around them. The gardens were her peace, and the animals her charge, and she’d never willingly flee their quarters and confines. Her gaze went to his hand but her palms didn’t take it, instead squeezing the herbs in her lap, easing a breath from her lungs. “I have no other knowledge. Everyone knows she’s taken over Stormbreak.” There’d been no grand revelation in the meeting – apart from Everest’s strange compliance and Anju’s natural and habitual need to coincide with the land’s protection. “I would rather protect this,” and she gestured vaguely to the enclosures, the flowers, the lights surrounding and pervading, “than simply let it succumb too. Frey appointed me here, and I will see it through.”
She didn’t understand his desperation though, not when her whole being has been so firmly committed to the world around them. The gardens were her peace, and the animals her charge, and she’d never willingly flee their quarters and confines. Her gaze went to his hand but her palms didn’t take it, instead squeezing the herbs in her lap, easing a breath from her lungs. “I have no other knowledge. Everyone knows she’s taken over Stormbreak.” There’d been no grand revelation in the meeting – apart from Everest’s strange compliance and Anju’s natural and habitual need to coincide with the land’s protection. “I would rather protect this,” and she gestured vaguely to the enclosures, the flowers, the lights surrounding and pervading, “than simply let it succumb too. Frey appointed me here, and I will see it through.”
little more like coming home
