Firefly Glen [PHE] iron blade

simbelmyne and kitimat.

as the boy seemed to lower into dozing, eivor kept her peace. she had felt something there in the moment of mother and son, something she had not seen fit for herself.

many shieldmaidens maintained the important balance of motherhood and warriorship. eivor doubted herself not once in this. it was only the desire. perhaps the absence of northern men and northern women into which some understandings might be entered.

available northern women, she jested to herself, thinking warmly of solveig.

geese flocked overhead in their classic pointed formation, and she felt herself rising with them, imagining in pleasant silence the experience of flight.