Stone Circle the away mission

Tulimaq has a point, and Merrit shifts his gaze aside to think. While he isn't privy to what goes on at the borders, he knows only family is allowed in the land of the Standing Stones. Family, along with those deemed honourable enough to join them - but Merrit has never seen how this process works. That decision belongs to his mother - and he has no desire to overstep his boundaries with her. But maybe, once she meets him...

"I'll ask mother," he thinks out loud, and almost suggests they just rally her now, until he turns his eyes to Tulimaq, whose gaze, he notices, has once again shifted to the stones on the hill - and a doubt slips into his mind. The face of his mother, and the final words of no - and he reconsiders. "There's a meadow just around the other side of Easthollow, to the West," he says instead, "I can meet you there."