Mount Apikuni a lonely lover's charm

Viggo chuckled at her remark. Indeed you are, he thought. And he would gladly allow her the honor of doing so for as long as she pleased. When she didn't move away, and instead invited him to sit beside her. He obliged without hesitation, settling down beside her so that he was just far enough away not to be touching her. “I think too many of us forget how magnificent it can be,” he said, letting his gaze fall over the landscape like a wave of water on the shore. “Get wrapped up in our own quests.” Viggo knew he was guilty of that.

“What is your quest, Miss…?” he trailed off, giving her a chance to say her name if she wished to bless him with it. The Ostrega wasn't concerned how detailed she was on her quest, or even if she made something up entirely. He was merely fishing for conversation, as he often did.