King Elk Forest can you call me when we're almost halfway

mato is taking a break. delight is worried about him -- he'd always been so unshakeable, and delight has idolized him, he knows, in a way that could probably be described as 'unhealthy' but delight chooses to think of as 'generous'. but he'd seen him after brienne left and he'd been worried then, too, and with burke clearly on death's door, and brienne back but not happily... well, he'd want to take a break, too. 

it doesn't do either of them any good for the androgyne to hover around fretting, so aside from showing up every now and then to check on burke (and, consequently, mato - though he's not as sneaky as he thinks he is about it), delight mostly lets him be. 

besides, mato's stepping down albeit temporarily means delight's stepped up and he feels the word morwinyon he's stolen mato's crown, only it's a little too big on him and slides around, doesn't fit quite right. he knows better than to try and be like mato - he's not nearly elegant enough, he doesn't radiate authority. he can, apparently, hold the fort down at least. which is why he's doing a sweep of the forest, making sure no one's gone and died in the snow, checking their cache, etc, etc. and absolutely not fretting about mato.