Firefly Glen ivalu ✦

He smiled again with her words.

It was reassuring, perhaps to some degree, to know that she held Moonspear in her heart. With all the turncoating and core rattling events that transpired in a short amount of time, it was a wonder that they didn’t crumble or fall in on themselves. And for as much as he hoped that they would move past it, he also could not help but entertain what the next twist would be from the keening blade that sought to cut them.

But it would come another time; he could busy himself otherwise.

“Akkaq,” he said slowly, testing the word. Languages were never his strong suit, at least beyond that of their shared tongue; it was cumbersome, he found, but not impossible. “I’ll have to remember that. Quite an interesting language… did you come from far away? I’ve never heard a tongue like that before.”