Moonspear when someone leaves your life,

Slowly, the girl’s harrowing vulnerability dawns on him. Perhaps it's her nervous swimming of the eyes or her dissociative statement that made Njord put two and two together. The man looks around. She was out here, alone… and nobody was coming.

The father thinks of his daughter Mercy and his heart tightens.

But Moonspear was only just founded with few resources for themselves and nothing to share. They had made no large kills and that meant no caches. If they were near saltwater, he could provide her a crab or mussel… but the man had yet to learn how to hunt this new, wild land.

Nevertheless, he beckons. “Come, let’s move ye out of the weather, lassie. There’s a large pile o’ trees with an ol' den not far.” Shelter.