Stone Circle Astragalus

Symbolization of the title flower · “Your presence softens my pain”

@Astrid had disappeared, and with her went Kristjan’s surge of familial imperialism. There was no point to such a thing, he found, not when blood was only good for running or fading away.

He felt dejected, on top of the stress of being a too-young leader, but he also felt comfort in knowing that his brothers still stood alongside him. Neither of them had yet abandoned Kvarsheim to chase after their only sister, the loneliest of them all.

He howled for his littermates now, Hjarta @Ujurak and Anda @Sven, their lands bathed in the low light of a rising sun. “Meet me by the stones.”

It was time to dictate their pack’s future. It was time to move forward.

Stage five: acceptance.