Sleeping Dragon Out of my league

Oh, jeez, Wildfire thought inanely as Gyda confirmed her worst suspicions. She was looking at Floki's older sister, no doubt about it now. It was entirely possible Floki might have mentioned her before. But, then, his relationship with his natal family had always been very complicated. He had been about to shed the Lodbrok surname entirely by the time they became mates. She flashed back to that moment—"Does this mean I get to be Mrs. Lodbrok?" "Maybe."—and her chest tightened.

Then Gyda brought up another name that made Wildfire's insides clench. She knew nothing of Junior's foray as a youngster, as Peregrine had never spoken of her again—at least to his other children—following her execution. So none of that really mattered, even though the level of connection she had with her second queen most certainly took the young Redhawk entirely by surprise.

Now the question was: should she mention her history with Floki? Wildfire didn't like lying, even by omission, so she supposed it would be best. For the moment, though, she found her throat closing against the utterance of his name. Instead, Wildfire seized upon something else entirely, another interesting tidbit Gyda had mentioned. "So your parents were into, uh..." Oh, gosh, what was the word? "Multiple partners?" she choked out a bit awkwardly, after failing to come up with the proper terminology.