"The end hasn't come yet." Aleifr says. "And what fate will put in your path before you find it is unknown to anyone but the Allfather."
He squeezes her shoulder in a gesture of silent reassurance before rising to his feet. Their fire had begun to dwindle and so he went to tend it, stirring it with a stick that he'd lift by the side of the crude stone pit they'd built, rousing a brief flurry of embers. Pockets of sap in the young wood on the pyre popped and hissed.
"We keep to the north when the sun rises. The summer hasn't passed yet, but if the snowfalls have begun in the Grey Mountains, my tribe will be moving towards our winter aett, near the Carrock."
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Date: 2025-02-24 06:42 am (UTC)He squeezes her shoulder in a gesture of silent reassurance before rising to his feet. Their fire had begun to dwindle and so he went to tend it, stirring it with a stick that he'd lift by the side of the crude stone pit they'd built, rousing a brief flurry of embers. Pockets of sap in the young wood on the pyre popped and hissed.
"We keep to the north when the sun rises. The summer hasn't passed yet, but if the snowfalls have begun in the Grey Mountains, my tribe will be moving towards our winter aett, near the Carrock."