Duskfire Glacier tangled up in you

their vows made, wintersbane struggles to find anything else that needed to be said — this would be an adventure of growth that he was suddenly glad he would not have to endure alone. though tzila was not his first wife, with any luck, she would be the last. giving away his heart only to have it shattered by circumstance was not something wintersbane favored doing a third time.

and didn't they always say the third time's the charm?

tzila speaks of hydra and it draws certain surprise to wintersbane's scarred visage. it has been some time since he thought of hydra — since the weeks that followed the incident that had claimed her and the towering peak of moonspear ( at least, in part ). perhaps she would. wintersbane murmurs in stilled agreement; not so sure that he knew hydra that well that he could say for sure.

he'd known her, of course; she'd trained him young and eager and barely out of cubhood. but looking back on it he realized he had not known her as well as he'd assumed. it makes wintersbane wonder, if briefly, how his wives would take his blossomed love for tzila ...only to tuck it away.

one day, when he joined them in the ether he suspected he would find out.