Dragoncrest Cliffs the stars are blazing

Thuringwethil wards off the need for someone else. She’d only been resting, trying to keep still; if anything, she’d preferred to have been left alone but she bites her tongue. Instead, she takes Kendra’s words to heart and gives the boy a chance to open up a little more. If she knows him well enough to be shy a little longer than is normal, Thuringwethil can give him a little more time to grow.

“It wasn’t great,” she says after a moment, uncertain how to respond to his comment. There aren’t any more details to follow and she’ll doubt that come; nor does she try to get the information out of him otherwise. “I aggravated the breaks the other day.” She’d been foolish to spar with Eske, already aware of the action she should have taken but what’s done is done and the young woman proved herself in battle. She did what she needed to do to win, just as she had done throughout her own short life.