Dragoncrest Cliffs pick your bones up, girl

this looks lonely!

the wound on her face has healed fine -- it was never very deep, a shallow cut inflicted in a moment of panic. but blixen is holding firm in keeping ephraim here. she feels bad about it -- nomi'd cared a lot about ephraim, and mal's adoptive father, too -- she wonders if she should have just sent him back to trigeda with the news and avoided all of this. but he'd shown his true colors as a natrona and blix can't.. she can't have that again. not when he has connections to the sound, even if he'd seemed... she doesn't know. she's not clever, but she's stubborn and dealing with a lot.

when she spots blodreina, she hesitates. the woman had been her mentor and mallaidh's, had helped her when she was still striving to be cheka, but they have not spoken in a long while. not since she was eske (does she know blodreina at all, then? -- well -- but she still knows mallaidh.)

after a moment she steps closer and chuffs, not quite willing to break the silence between them, but wondering if the woman would allow blix to walk with her on her patrol.