Sleeping Dragon Out of my league

While Gyda had taken note of Wildfire's deliberation she thought nothing of it aside from what Wildfire had already confirmed to her: nerves. It was easy, Gyda realized, for her to say that there was nothing to be nervous about — because in her mind there wasn't — but it was understandably probably a whole other thing to cease being. Gyda wasn't often nervous, but then again she'd never been shy or had any reason to be such. She was cunning and quiet at times but not shy and perhaps in the respect of her parents' upbringing she was not easily intimidated. After all, it was hard to find any appearance intimidating after seeing Ragnar's marred flesh and empty eye socket. He had looked monstrous the last time she'd seen him but she had loved him dearly even as they exchanged heated words of ire and arguments.

She was caught up in the bittersweet memory of her last encounter with Ragnar that Gyda almost missed the words that Wildfire spoke next. Gyda brought herself to focus upon the flame colored girl before her, her ears cupping forth as the question hung in the air between them, followed by the fact that Wildfire was somewhat familiar with the Bay. “Ragnar Loðbrók, his queen wife Thistle Cloud, and his priestess wife Nerian.” Nerian had been, perhaps awkwardly, more of a “sister” role than a mother role to Gyda, admittedly, for it was the shield-maiden that had taken care of and escorted the priestess to the safety of the Earl Sif of Freyja's Moor, but still the Viking Queen felt obligated to mention her.

“Peregrine,” Gyda repeated the name, knowing it well enough. “For a while his daughter...your sister, Junior was a guest at our home.” Gyda had never met Peregrine personally but she remembered Junior and that there had been talks of an alliance between the two packs despite Ragnar's inherent dislike of them. Shortly after, though, Nerian had discovered she was expecting and Gyda had set out with her so if the alliance had happened or not was left to the unknowns to the shield-maiden.