a path there ended

For @Aerith.

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Four months.

Four moons had passed since Sindri and her family had awoken in this vast, wild new land. Entrusting Ragnar with everything she had, the shield-maiden had set him off with the pups on their path they had been on- to find and found their new home. She? Sindri wanders alone and alone searching for their lost son. Sindri's only child birthed from her own womb.

Through the north she had roamed first with knowing her son favored the cold climate well. Forests, mountains, open tundra. She found nothing. So she had gone elsewhere- through plains, meadow, gorges, further south, but nothing.

So she returned to the north with a heavy heart and empty arms. Her son was beyond her reach, set on a new path all his own. A deep sigh, she looks up to the mountains which stood proud before her now. She knew Ragner would have brought their children north, to the mountains, near the sea too, if he could. Was this it?

She calls out to the bright open skies of day, hoping one might hear her plea.

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The vale her was shrouded. A mist clinging to the lands, filling the air with dew. Somewhere, she heard the gentle flow of a creek. Somewhere, she heard the call of another.

And then...

Peachy ears lift, seeking the source of the sound of falling footsteps. Bright sunflower eyes find the snowy pixie and stills, her throat clenching. Snowy and silvery eyes. She danced with moonlight much like the woman she loved whom feasted with the Gods now.

Sindri holds back a whine but forces a small smile instead. “Halló.” She responds in kind, thickly accented but with no words not uncommon to the other. “I am called Sindri Swiftkill, of house Stormborn.” A dip of her creamy muzzle. “And the name of the one who listens?”

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Sindri's smile there lingers with the woman's words. Sindri did not extend the family name she had been born to and so takes Ragnar's instead, despite their lack of love affair. Sindri, she truly just was, where 'Swiftkill' was a title she had gained from her hunting and fighting prowess. A name given by her former mate which she thought so strongly of now. Her title suited her, said this woman and for which Sindri was happy for.

“Aėrith Tindómisel,” She repeats the name, the last which rolls off her tongue with odd dialect. “Your vale is lovely...” And she wonders then how many others there might be. She smells little. Smells, none really at this moment and in this area, savor the woman before her now.

“Pardon my intrusion, ” She apologies, “I merely walk and the Gods guide me as they so choose. I find myself venturing north again. I believe they mean for me to rest back where I belong, now.” A soft frown, a failed mission. Wherever her son was, she did so hope he had strength and good company.
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She nods of the Gods and they bringing her home. Without their guidance and with being so worn in travel alone, had it not been for their helping hand Sindri did not know if she would have found her way. At least not for some time longer. But then, a question of favor by the other, a metaphorical outstretched paw to Sindri.

A deeper frown then before touches her expression now and in that moment of weakness, the mother turns her head away from the other and out to the misted vale which she now knew as Cloudrest. Sindri, of course being a woman of the north had always appreciated its beauty. From here however, she did not smell the coast and longed for this just as much so. A picky woman she was, perhaps.

“Only time may mend my ailment, far deeper then any blood shed of raid or war. I fear no death but, ” She turns to the soft maiden again, her eyes like moonlight, like whom Sindri so loved, now gone too. “My son is lost by me for far too long now. I only hope he serves well elsewhere and that somewhere near, my others still wait for me. Have you caught wind of them in this area? Their father is named Ragnar. He would have sought a home for us near rock and sea.”

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Aeri's expression pulls at Sindri, it flutters her heart and quakes her soul as the woman bats away sudden tears. Sindri in that moment feels no need any longer to shield her sorrow from her. For which the look Aeri gave, the words which came there after, she too had felt such horrible pain, same as she. A pain many young mothers felt, a pain which at some point most all mothers felt.

Alas, she finds a loss of hope once more to hear that the woman did not know of Ragnar and with it did not know the children which they bore together. Sindri sighs, her own lips forming into that tight, pained flat line. A loss for words, the little woman comes to move to the ice queen's side. A quiver, a hesitancy. She wills herself to find comfort there with her and within the still and silence of her home.

Then, after awhile, “Might I stay with you tonight?” Not only because she traveled so far and was so very tired, but because already she had come to truly enjoy the woman's company. And in their loneliness, in their loss, they would now have one another.
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