Sleeping Dragon Ride of the Valkyries

No need to wait for Hvitserk to post. He will as needed. :)

She is near the rendezvous site talking to Gavriel when the call is made, causing her ears to rise and then her head. It is familiar, so she dismisses the thought of Arch returning already, and is left curious to whom calls her like they know her. Leaving Gavriel in place with the children, she begins her trek down a familiar pathway that ultimately puts her on the borders. She doesn't get far, however, when she notices the crunch of leaves behind her and turns to find @Hvitserk on her heels.

"You will need to learn to hide your steps, goufa," she tells him in their own language but does not dismiss him from following. The children are learning their different trades and the borders, even with a stranger on the other side, is part of the task.

The rest of the trip is made until the wind sweeps a familiar scent to her nose and her hackles raise with irritation before she even makes the connection. When she sees the familiar, albeit grizzled, form of Goliath, she lifts her head and puffs out her chest before closing the distance. She stops several yards away, out of earshot, when she turns downward to Hvitserk.

"You will stay behind me," she commands the child. "If something goes wrong, find your father." She gives him only a second to accept the words before she takes a few more steps, keeping in front of the boy, and having him wait when she's comfortable stepping him.

Dark eyes rest, hardened, on the scarred male as she looks him over. It has been some months since she'd last seen him, disappeared from their borders without a trace, but he stands before her anyway. Hush had earned his place before his disappearance during the famine but she knows Goliath can't say the same, aside from the time he'd saved her life from the cougar.

"Golaith," she says then, and nothing else, the simple word his only command to speak and fend for himself.