Stone Circle No time

She can’t leave. She can’t amend things with Swiftcurrent. She can’t go to Riverclan. She can’t be gone from her children.

Her boy is blessedly swift and her heart hitches in a moment of relief to see him. “I need you to go to Riverclan. We need a healer. We need medicine,” her paw over Gunnar’s own tightens.

“Will you do this?” She turns to him starkly.

Then came Gunnar’s daughter and the nornir stares helplessly into the girl’s fearful face.

“Astrid- I don’t know my darling,” She says earnestly to her niece. “Please, will you go with Skáld? We need help for your father so he can get better, ok?”