Stone Circle Healing Incantation

His smile charmed her, and Steph found herself returning it unconsciously. Birk, he said. She liked the name. What's it like in the North? she asked. The furthest she had been out of the territory was on the side of the neighboring mountain, and that hadn't lasted too long before she and Clary were caught and sent back home. 

With everything else, her broken rib, the big, noisy, birds in the sky, her brother and sister leaving on adventures... Steph just hadn't thought about going anywhere else. But, she could live vicariously through Birk. What made you come here? she asked, curious.