Stone Circle a crown only falls

He was here. Disa was both glad and a little disappointed - she had given the most encouraging speech she could muster, and it had been to no avail.

No matter. She had come with a proposition.

"I need companions," she said in place of hello, steel meeting silver. The words were out before she had so much as come to a halt. "For winter. And you need..." To move on, and live. "You need something new. You can come back again when the world warms up. Please," Disa added before Sven had even processed her words as language. The muscles of her face reluctantly moved out of their natural frowning state. "I can't stay in the desert, and neither of us can spend a winter alone."