Stone Circle I banish you with love.

for a cruel moment, she thought it mother bear.

her heart was wretched from her all at once when she realized it was not. lighter in the wrong places, sagged some places that mother bear had not. aged more like gunnar.

but bjarna did not let the hurt shine upon her. she greeted the woman with a soft warmth on her wrinkled face.

hallo...

a soft dip of her head, before it tilted in a more doggish manner.

what had brought such a woman here? she looked nearly otherworldly in the way she examined the land.