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Gunnar is quick to stow his hesitation but it wont go unnoticed. Her eyes avert passively and a breath’s withheld. She’d want to explain, in the same way she’d told Louis that it hadn't been planned, but it wouldn’t change anything now. Her ears flatten but she returns his look.

“Overwhelmed, mostly,” she confesses, “but, excited, too.” A wind picks up and she tries to let its sensation soothe.

“I’m thinking of taking Skáld out to the lake to go swimming for a bit. I’m worried about how he’ll take the news.” She wanted the boy to have good memories of his childhood. She wanted him to have time, just the two of them, where she could reassure him he could never be replaced; that he was her family.