Stone Circle The secret life of daydreams

Reclined at her sister's side, Nanook was more than content to merely listen to Desna and her son reconnect after his bout of travel. But Nikai turned his eyes to her again, and when he spoke, her throat tightened at his question.

But as fast as her nerves choked her, they fizzled out, both from the solidity of Desna's voice, and the gentle presence of the boy, and where fear would have been, she felt the warmth of a strange sensation. Nanook managed to return a dim mirror of her sister's smile, and kept her mouth twitched upward even when she turned again to Nikai.

"Oh. Yeah. I went North." She said, and, unknowing, her gaze shifted from his face to the distant horizon when she recalled those months alone - months filled with frustration and questions, seeking and searching, turning over rock after rock, and listening to wolf after wolf. And while she hadn't found what she had set out to find, she had found what she had needed to, and a strange nostalgia toyed with the ghosted grin on her face. "I followed the stars. I could teach you." Her offer came quick and hushed, and her eyes glowed with a new intensity. The excitement of sharing her interest drowned out the sense of alarm at what the end of this meant.