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The mountain echoed her words, faintly, fading. She took one shuddering inhale after another, the silence damning.

Then she flinched, her ears picking up the soft crunch of approaching footsteps mere seconds before a voice shattered her illusion of loneliness. Her head whipped back over her shoulder, blinking hard against the tears threatening. One slipped, tracing a hot line down her cheek, and she quickly averted her gaze, having caught the briefest glimpse of pinkish purple hues, cut through with brilliant white. Sindri; the most recent member of the wolf family to have gone missing, and the only one to return.

The skies are silent for me, too. Bragi's mouth twisted in a cruel imitation of a smile. Of fucking course she'd heard that. God forbid a girl have a little menty b in peace.

She sniffed, a feeble attempt to regain what little composure she had left, her face still turned away. The gods hate you, too, huh? She murmured, low and bitter under her breath. That was a little reassuring, she supposed; knowing she wasn't the only one left here to rot, wondering what she'd done wrong.

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