Jade Fern Grove you are alive and are dying

there are infidels everywhere, she corrected hastily, her tone spiced by her sense of righteousness, but then she was quick to remedy the strangeness of her voice. i would not be surprised if i was followed, or if we were being watched by some cretin in the dark. alas, we are safe together. but this comment may only lead to this girl staying with her, and hosannah had other places to be. she would have to correct her hastily spoken words, and this would take some thought.

she was pleased when minna began to ask other questions though, and glossed over her own ramblings without further issue. such a description is correct. there is ice and stone, mountains, and hardly any green. it is a hard place, much unlike the blackfoot forest. i did not go so far north to see the great ice sheets, but i imagine they would not be far from where i encountered the pack wolves. it is far safer to the south, where we have made our home. at this she smiled, and looked to the south, then to the girl. do you like it? the forest.