Gilded Bay you pinned me with your black sphere eyes

She was with him.

That was all that mattered in that moment. Time would make other things more important, but he had gathered his first and they had only just begun there. How easy it was, he'd thought to himself. How could his father have made it out to be so challenging? Though, when Ford thought about the indomitable Skellige, he knew that the numbers he must have gathered were true and believed him to be a fit leader. In that, he could admire his brutish father.

They trekked down the coast for hours, sometimes in silence and other times in polite conversation. The titan never gave away too much, but always appeared perfectly intent to listen to her. It was far better to have her talk than to force her to endure what he would have to offer. The further they wandered, the better he felt about having garnered her pledge. She would be the first of many, he knew.