The Heartwood There is no end, only a new beginning.

shadow-cloaked mountain listened in silence as broad shoulders carried him ; each step a rippling wave of pure muscle, refined, slimness a telltale sign of both wintertime, and a man that had not quite left the rigidness of his past ; a man who worked, now, to keep himself in what was once his peak condition, a former glory that was stained in scarlet.

now, he kept himself strengthened so that he may protect his future spawn.

you are untethered to your past, came a gruff tone, his words not quite jagged, though certainly not melodic by any means. they were rough, though they held a sort of distant envy, a wish that he, too, could be unbound from such whispers of a time long ago. this is good. it means that you may build yourself anew - someone that you were not, someone that you may become. someone, something, that may be cherished, rather than . . . exiled. he gave a brief flick of his tail ; a faint hum, too.

it was a hearty, disbelieving laugh that spilt from his dark, greying maw, then. a year, he looked back at the scrawny man, then, tilting his head as if a wave of realisation had washed over him. i see, he turned his head away, now, gaze of rubies focusing on the woods up ahead. there are many spirits roaming the neverwinter, although most only come in the breeze that shifts through the forest, the falling of the leaves, the ripples of the pools. their whispers are faint amongst the wind, for it is the lady of the moon that i am attune with, gospel left his lips like music. a passionate belief.

we will get you something to eat. i believe the hárkonungr, @Solharr, will see the same potential within you that i do ; you must merely express to him your beliefs, and he will surely take you in - akin to my own joining, moons ago now.

he fell into silence, then, leading the pair towards the neverwinter.

feel free to end with your next post, or you can have einn ask anymore questions or anything !! ;D

solharr tag for ref !!! im dragging my irl to forneskja