Dragoncrest Cliffs and maybe in a year i will not feel like a bad queer

maybe a @Rose or @Eastwood? aw tho!

things have mostly settled into normalcy, or as much as normalcy can be for her. blixen is still somewhat unsure of herself as a leader -- listen, it's been like, a month in a half, she's still learning. bat's disappearance remains a black mark on her record even with everything else. when nomi comes home she'll have to take responsibility for that, and for letting mallaidh join them again even if she never told nomi explicitly that she was natrona. no, though, she's not natrona, and that's blix's argument. 

there's about fifty other dangling threads between her and mallaidh, but that's neither here nor there right now, as much as blix wants it to be here, now.

what should she make of ... them? they're just friends, but that doesn't mean that her feelings are any different, or that she doesn't feel the tensions lingering in the air between them, unsaid words, thinks that she thinks but does not breath lest it scare the silver-caped girl away from her once again. and there are complications too: saarthal and max, what do they mean to her, rose, rose and her everything that blix is only just starting to figure out, figuring out how she actually feels. jealousy is convenient but obscures the truth; blix is not as clear-headed as mallaidh about these things.

sighing, the young commander moves towards the borders, aimlessly taking up patrol.