Stavanger Bay iriġauraq(-) [m]

The silence she held was a constant and she did not fear it; but when he spoke, when he broke through that to tell his name, she could only smile. First with her eyes closed as he adjusted the flower, and then with her eyes fluttering open.

There was fondness here for him. This stranger man from a warm place, this Haizel. She wished she could say something to him - but that would not be her way.

Wilwarin could not, and so she only reached out and kissed the end of his nose.

She kissed his cheeks. As his eyes closed she kissed them too, sliding from his grasp as if she were about to continue with these affections.

Once his eyes opened again, she would have danced away across the snow as it fell, and with her path obscured, was gone.