Grouse Thicket but we can overcome

Was thinking we could have a new thread in Golden Glade? I'm happy to start it after you get a final reply in for this one. :]

There was a moment of fleeting surprise that had etched itself across her sandy blonde features. Kodlak worried that he had suggested too much – to travel from where they were and move to a new location – and that his companion would have been more comfortable to simply stay put. There was something disquieting about the brambles and the tight quarters of the thicket. The Nord felt more at home when he was closer to the skies than to the brush of the earth. In confined spaces, he found himself feeling small and insignificant. Though he knew himself to be a brutal warrior of the northern wastes, he could not always find comfort in the close-knit trees.
 
Niamh offered for him to lead and Kodlak graciously accepted with a polite smile and a swinging of his skull toward their next mark. Out beyond the tight tangle of underbrush was a glade that seemed as though it boasted a fair bit of shade and level of opulence that the thicket was lacking. Kodlak believed this would suit as a more fitting setting for tales of frozen adventures and daring feats belonging only to the frigid north.