Sunspire Mountains vice city

spleenbane ...it brings to the surface fond, if not horribly foggy memories of his mother, whose face he remembers only because he was born to be her masculine image; but whose voice and trill of song he forgets the sound of and tragic still never to be heard again. that's right. wintersbane ( though soon to be dubbed 'melkor' to add to his ever growing list of monkiers ) replies with a small smile.

though wintersbane is respectfully silent as she speaks, answering his inquiry readily enough, he gives a solemn nod to the bit about the earthquakes. he wasn't present for them either — and draws the conclusion that the two of them had a penchant for returning after the storm has all but passed. i wasn't here for it either, he responds. lucky the herds are returning, though. we might've come back to a lot less wolves.

mhm, i know her ...though she doesn't go by aure anymore. 'i know her' doesn't feel like it covers the complexity ( nor the intimacy ) of their knowledge of one another but it is not a tangled web that wintersbane deigns to unravel right here and now. she goes by 'andraste' now and she leads courtfall. he informs easy, thinking that there is no harm in offering her this information.