[not her north, obviously, but a north. that surely must mean something? she reflexively darts a glance from side to side, as if she's expecting someone to be eavesdropping in her own home.]
There were summer snows, in the North, but the winters were said to be much worse. It was winter again when I came here, but I was only in the Vale. Still, they have a tradition where they kill a cow when the household of the Eyrie leaves for the Gates of the Moon, and see if it'll keep until spring, on the ice.
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You're from the north?
[not her north, obviously, but a north. that surely must mean something? she reflexively darts a glance from side to side, as if she's expecting someone to be eavesdropping in her own home.]
There were summer snows, in the North, but the winters were said to be much worse. It was winter again when I came here, but I was only in the Vale. Still, they have a tradition where they kill a cow when the household of the Eyrie leaves for the Gates of the Moon, and see if it'll keep until spring, on the ice.