Shady

"No," she said firmly, furrowing her brow at him. What was with all these men, trying to kill themselves on her behalf? "You can't go die because of me. That's ...

Ky felt like he was packing entirely too many things to focus on in these statements he kept making. But it reminded her that she needed to call him off, ...

"How so?" Ky bunched up her coats and finally sat down again, deciding to trust Rönn to protect her. Or at the very least to warn her to get inside.

“The trees ?” Ky asked incredulously, looking at the forest around them suspiciously. What next? Was the snow sentient too?

Ky hesitated, body relaxing ever so slightly. “That’s true.”

(Gracious lol) “Is she close, too?” Ky asked, uneasily eyeing the woods again. At this rate, she wasn’t so sure that staying in the North was less of a risk ...

Ky stared at him aghast. “Where does she live?”

That alarmed Ky, but she attempted not to show it. She was only marginally successful. “…what is she? Who ?”

“Um…” She squinted, trying to remember. “Stone Mother?”

“I…” She shook her head slightly, looking back at him. “The ones people think are just stories. Are they real?” She stopped just short of likening them to him.

Ky looked back at the woods, as if she could pick out an outline in the distance, even though they both knew nothing was there. As far as she was ...

She blinked at him. “…there… are multiple?”

“Is it a troll?” she asked, trying to remember what Gaius had said about northern folktales.

“I don’t sleep tonight if you don't ,” she argued. “I’ll be left to imagine the worst, all night.”

“We talk about what ‘it’ is.” She looked back at the woods, very clearly alarmed. “What’s coming?”