Dragoncrest Cliffs pick your bones up, girl

thank you for rescuing it! <3

blodreina's gaze moves over her shoulder at the sound of approaching footfalls. she regards blixen for a moment, breaking the silence that hangs between upon the younger woman's approach with with a quiet, respectful wormana. there is no verbal question asked but blodreina accepts blixen's company all the same, inviting for the fire-kissed woman to join her with a gesture of her muzzle. maybe, blodreina considers, it's high past time she stopped shutting everyone out of her life, pushing everyone away. it's no secret to herself that she's afraid to let others close. she let her siblings close and they betrayed her by leaving her behind. even gyda and gavriel left, though blodreina could understand their choice to depart. at least they said goodbye. kendra and arlo both died and now heda too was gone.

it's hard, she reasons, to let others in when she's reminded over and over of why she's reluctant to do so in the first place.

how're you holding up? and i'm not asking you as wormana. i'm asking you as blixen. blodreina asks, fighting the swell of emotion as she realizes that this falls eerily in line with the last conversation she'd had with heda. she tries not to dwell upon it too much, her concern for blixen genuine. they might not be overly close but she was family and blodreina did care, deep down.