Northstar Vale I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you.

She leaned in to him, his affections, his voice - the latter seeming so loud because of how close he was, although it was a quiet observation. Ibis' skin was humming and all she wanted was to offer herself up to him, or find somewhere quiet where they could nap the day away and talk; but she had to focus.

Yes. This is -- it's going to sound a bit pretentious -- The Reneian Empire. My best friend Reiko leads it. Up until now she'd given Akavir a few glimpses in to her own past, vagaries about growing up among the Willows with her mixed family and eventually moving in with her father, but nothing concrete. They had been heading for the mountains for a few days and all she had told him was, my home is this way!

Hopefully he wasn't deterred.