Sleeping Dragon they've got the kingdom locked up

Eske didn't bother to explain who she meant despite that Thuringwethil had asked her. The favorites weren't present. Yet, even when it appeared that realization had dawned on Heda whom Eske had meant the older woman did not budge. Eske considered repeating herself before she remembered (in the nick of time!) that Thuringwethil was her Heda and she could not talk to her as she would Gyda. In Eske's desperate attempt to assert herself, to prove that she was better than her siblings it made her extremely rebellious and sassy af disobedient. To her obedience was a way to keep her complacent, quiet — neither of which she swore she would be. She the Grounder Princess and the only word that could command her was Heda's. “Hakom?” Eske asked Heda softly, her gaze imploring as she studied her not yet ready to believe that what Thuringwethil spoke was truth despite that she had no reason not to believe it besides her own incorrigible stubbornness.