Neverwinter Forest kanevvluk ‡

her mother was kindness.

she could have wept for it all! perhaps later she very well might. not out of sadness, but out of the wellspring of relief. gratitude. she was not sure if she would let sólhárr see it.

maybe, maybe.

a wrapping of a foxfur around her shoulders now. where once a ramskin had laid as an engagement gift. he did not boast, he did not cheer, he did not exclaim himself so great a man as to have a Nuiruk woman wish to wed him.

instead he remained respectful. he voiced his own gratitude when she could not.

she only moved to softly kiss her mother's cheek. soon, she wished to say. i love you, she wanted to whisper. yet she feared any words uttered might be creaky with emotion! so she refrained. only the image of a woman enamored with a man and awed by a moonwoman in equal turns.