it was not yet dawn when germanicus sent a single note into the air for the ear of @Célnes and @Cenric. gone for a fortnight on personal business, permission given ten days prior, and the potential of a sooner return, given what may come.

the guard turned then and made off at a smart clip. he did not look back upon kingslend, somehow relieved to shed the saltpillar of family tension and cultish worship marked by the déorwine clan. relieved to be, for a short while, not a heathen among those so devoted, only a rogue eaglebound marching his way across the landscape.