Ankyra Sound one gonna help me keep, another gonna help me take

a spark of hope still glittered in ingram's eyes, and he tilted his head curiously at sif, wondering why she had grown silent on the subject. he wondered for a moment if it was something he said and his brow furrowed as he trenched through their stilted conversation and tried to identify the locus that had shifted the mood.

he was fairly oblivious, so whatever it was, he didn't detect it. all the same he lowered his head and cast her a meaningful look: "does that mean you've seen her? where?!" his breath rose to his throat and a sense of steady excitement pitter-patted in his chest.