1/13/2026, 1:28 AM
gjalla slowed just enough for their shoulders to align as they descended the cliffs. her gaze stays forward, fixed on the pale expanse unfurling below, but her attention is unmistakably on the ghostly woman beside her.
eirwen’s admission didn’t shock her. soldiers, orders, driving strangers out or dragging them home by the scruff. none of it is new. gjalla's mouth tightens, pensive in memory. she does not visions to know that she had been both the teeth and the tongue in similar arrangements.
they crested the shelf of earth and frost, the plain yawning wide before them.
eirwen’s admission didn’t shock her. soldiers, orders, driving strangers out or dragging them home by the scruff. none of it is new. gjalla's mouth tightens, pensive in memory. she does not visions to know that she had been both the teeth and the tongue in similar arrangements.
they crested the shelf of earth and frost, the plain yawning wide before them.
fufilling work, i trust.gjalla remarked, turning to face her companion.
is it in your desires to be one again?once a soldier, always a soldier, many argued, but perhaps this woman would find peace with a change of pace.
