Stavanger Bay vikings mourn their dead

We can continue on for a few more posts with Gyda captializing on the inner territories of the Bay or we can fade to a close with your post. It doesn't matter to me! c:

The praise that Krypton offered the young Viking Queen did not go unnoticed, nor thankless. Gyda might not have thought herself arrogant but she enjoyed the flattery — like most young girls do. She liked to know that she had impressed, she liked to be admired. Was this what it felt like to Ragnar who had been both admired and feared? The fuzzy warm feeling that blossomed within Gyda's chest and spread to her cheeks with subtle hints of humility. It was not every day she was praised by a stranger and only for a moment did Gyda allow herself to bask in it. It felt dangerous though, basking too long in the praise and the way in which it lifted her spirits. As if it would be all too easy to get drunk in it. It proved a nice and useful distraction from the grief clouding her heart for the moment. “You are kind,” Gyda murmured, perhaps a bit bashfully. This easy compliment was not something she was used to. Perhaps the Vikings were just a harder bunch to please but Gyda felt as if she had not truly done anything to earn Krypton's praise. Still, she accepted it nevertheless. It would be rude otherwise.

“You spoke of exploring, no? Come,” Gyda invited with a sweep of her silver tail and a gesture of her elegant muzzle. “I will show you around,” Stavanger Bay was still Gyda's home ...or perhaps a home she was not ready to yet let go of, though she understood that it was only because it had been precious to Ragnar and it was the resting place of his corporeal body. Her mother had found the courage to move on ...and now, so too shall she. “It is overgrown from time without the pack but I remember.” Even though it looked a little different, and though the damage done by whatever storm had moved through it made those reaches of the Bay perhaps unsafe to travel to she still knew these lands like she knew the back of her own paw.