Northstar Vale drenched Mads, tear in eyes Mads, drinking hard Mads, naked Mads in freeze

Laughter;
it fluted from the waxen throat low and light, perhaps for one of the first and few times in all these long and strenuous weeks, for well did she understand such frustrations when it came to the other sex. Frustration, yes — and her own brother had been of the sort of mold that Andromaque seemed to be carved from, no? Then:

"Of course,"  grinning further, farther,  "I will be very attentive of who it is that enters our realm, especially where it concerns you."  She has never done such an act, she thinks; and altogether supposes it is not that different from the usual track-and-hunt ... But, overall, she gives a humbled nod of her head to that which Andromaque has provided.  "Let us set an excursion to ze Taiga, within a fortnight or so. We must see who might be most suitable in accompanying you."