In the warm glow and steady roar of the well-tended campfire heads were dipped low in conversation as Briar Cousland went over again and again and then once more with the two junior Wardens over their standing supplies. Call it a wont for order the late Eleanor Cousland foisted upon Briar in her formative years to always be certain they had enough elfroot and bandages. As much the daughter of a teryn as she was the child of an infamous sea raider; instilling the notion that one can never be too prepared deep into the bone.
"If we have to barter with that damned dwarf still working the Imperial Highway again I-"
Briar snapped her head in that direction of the sudden interruption. The warm and familiar notes of a voice that rang in her ears like distance Chantry bells in the early hours of dawn over the smell of burning cedarwood.
"Alistair."
A name could swing down from her own lips heavy as killing blow with the wind knocked out of her.
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In the warm glow and steady roar of the well-tended campfire heads were dipped low in conversation as Briar Cousland went over again and again and then once more with the two junior Wardens over their standing supplies. Call it a wont for order the late Eleanor Cousland foisted upon Briar in her formative years to always be certain they had enough elfroot and bandages. As much the daughter of a teryn as she was the child of an infamous sea raider; instilling the notion that one can never be too prepared deep into the bone.
"If we have to barter with that damned dwarf still working the Imperial Highway again I-"
Briar snapped her head in that direction of the sudden interruption. The warm and familiar notes of a voice that rang in her ears like distance Chantry bells in the early hours of dawn over the smell of burning cedarwood.
"Alistair."
A name could swing down from her own lips heavy as killing blow with the wind knocked out of her.