Stone Circle öðruvísi

her answer, that she did not want to know, sobered sanja. a part of her thought that bjarna would leave her for this adventure if she had known of it before, a covetous part that did not want to see the girl go away, and perhaps that was why she had held her silence about the truth for so long. to hear that she would not seek her mother - whoever her blood kin was - eased some part of sanja's heart.

when your brothers and your sister are bigger, and they can be left without me, then i will show you. okay? it would be months; perhaps in the winter, perhaps in the spring when the snows had gone away again, they could make their journey.

sanja pressed her forehead to bjarna's fondly, listening. she gave a small sigh.

when silence came between them, she offered something else: would you like to come now, and visit the little ones? i must go see to them. you could come along if you would like. or if she wished for solitude with the stones and the trees, sanja would oblige her that.