Big Salmon Lake twixt the two a witch shall falter

"Great," Osprey replied and swayed her tail in a happy manner. She wasn't going to pester Lasher about his relationship with Peregrine. No matter, how unorthodox it had been, she respected her brother's choices. Was it really important with whom you got together, if he or she made you happy? Did you really need to dissect all the motives and reasons for that? No. Besides - so fresh after break-up it would be cruel from her to ask more about this subject than she already had.

"What do people ask on these occasions?" she mused aloud, while her gaze was wandering across the frozen lake. "Say, you and me met over a fresh caught rabbit - I say, the weather has been cold lately and you say..." she offered him a playful grin, inviting her companion to play along.