Moonsong Glacier rises the moon

Valiant stilled when she claimed to have felt that third man before, but quickly fell into step once more. He was not the only one who felt the spirits — it would be stranger if he was.

He had not heard much about the this Spine, but he knew that it was where Moonglow resided. He cast a speculative look over their shoulders, measuring the distance between this place and hers, and then trying quickly to calculate how long it might take for him to reach it from the seashores.

"My mother died before I'd seen a year," he told her. "The family split after that. I grew up all over the place. But there — " he halted them, nodding toward the southeast. "There's a hotspring. A good place for a swim in the wintertime. Have you been to see them?"

She was here to visit her sister. Valiant could only imagine how intent he would be on finding her if he where this close to seeing Minnow again. But perhaps another time, he could convince her to accompany him.